De l'endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic + 5 other titles, 2 insc. to P. Ricord.
Publisher Information: Paris: Baillière, 1865.
Desormeaux, Antonin Jean (1815-94). De l’endoscope et de ses applications au diagnostic et au traitement des affections de l’urèthre et de la vessie. x, 186pp. 3 chromolithographed plates (1 double-page); text illustrations. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1865. 218 x 134 mm. Bound with 6 works by different authors on genito-urinary diseases and other subjects in 19th-century quarter calf, marbled boards, spine detached, light rubbing and wear. Light toning but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed on the front flyleaf: “à mon très honoré et illustre Monsieur Rico[rd] hommage respectueux de son élève A Desormeax” (inscription a bit trimmed).
First Edition. “Desormeaux was a pioneer of endoscopy” (Garrison-Morton.com 4172). He made significant improvements to the early endoscope and was the first to use it successfully to operate on a living patient. His textbook on endoscopy, with color plates showing views through the endoscope, helped to popularize the procedure.
The remaining works in this volume are:
a. Desormeaux. De l’uréthrotomie: Discours prononcé à la Société de Chirurgie dans la séance du 5 juin 1865. Offprint from Gazette des hôpitaux (1865). 15pp. Paris: J. Claye, [1865].
First Edition, Offprint Issue.
b. Dodeuil, C. M. Timoléon. Recherches sur l’altération senile de la prostate et sur les valvules du col de la vessie. 108, [2]pp. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1866. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Ricord on the half-title: “A Monsieur le Docteur Ricord hommage respectueux Dodeuil (de Ham[…])” (inscription slightly trimmed).
First Commercial Edition; also published as Dodeuil’s medical thesis.
c. Fauconneau-Dufresne, Victor-Albans. De l’influence du système nerveux dans la production du diabète: Applications thérapeutiques qui en découlent. Offprint from Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie. 15pp. Paris: Victor Masson, 1860.
First Edition, Offprint Issue.
d. Lecorché, Ernest (1830-1905). De l’amblyopie diabétique. Offprint from Gazette hebdomadaire de médecine et de chirurgie. 18pp. Paris: Victor Masson, 1861.
First Edition, Offprint Issue.
e. Mercier, Louis-Auguste (1811-82). Troisième série d’observations et remarques sur le traitement de la rétention d’urine causée par les valvules du col de la vessie. Extract from Mercier, Recherches anatomiques, pathologiques et thérapeutiques sur les valvules du col de la vessie, cause fréquente et peu connue de rétention d’urine (Paris: Le Normant, 1848 [i.e., 1850]): 403-476pp. Text illustrations.
Probable First Printing, dated 15 February 1850. The second printing of Mercier’s Troisième série, contained in the second edition of his Recherches anatomiques (also dated 1848), is dated 15 March 1850, has a different setting of pp. 469-476, and contains additional material. Mercier, a specialist in the surgical treatment of genito-urinary diseases, introduced the coudé and bicoudé catheters (see Garrison-Morton.com 4168.1) and wrote classic papers on prostatism (Garrison-Morton.com 4259.1) and coarctation of the aorta (Garrison-Morton.com 2750.1).
f. Rodriguez da Costa Duarte, Ignacio. Des fistules génito-urinaires chez la femme. 96pp. Text illustrations. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1865.
First Edition.
Book Id: 50780
Price: $1,750.00