[Rarebooks] fa: ALBRECHT VON HALLER Disputationes Chirurgicae 1755 - SURGERY - 3 VOLS./26 PLATES

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Listed now, along with other 17th, 18th, & 19th-century medical titles, auctions ending Sunday, Sept. 16. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under the seller name arch_in_la.

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[Albrecht von Haller (ed.):] Disputationes Chirurgicae Selectae, Collegit, Editit, Praefatus Est Albertus Hallerus. Lausannae [Lausanne]: Sumptibus Marci-Michael, Bousquest, & Socior., MDCCLV [1755]. First edition thus. Text in Latin. Three volumes (of five); 4to (25 x 20 cm) in late nineteenth-century burgundy cloth; 606, 606, 654 pp.; title-pages printed in red & black with engraved vignette, engraved frontispiece + 25 engraved plates (14 folding).

Volumes I, II, and III only of this five-volume collection, but each volume is complete in itself. With all 25 plates called for in the numbering (plates XVIII and XIX on one folding sheet), plus the frontispiece in vol. I. A collection of medical treatises and dissertations selected and edited by Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), Swiss anatomist and physiologist, a student of Boerhaave and Albinus...

Including illustrated treatises on:
THE BRAIN & SKULL: De contrafissura (contrafissure); brain and cranial tumors; caries (decay) of the cranium; cerebral hernias; De fungo cerebri (cerebral fungus?); etc.
OPHTHALMOLOGY: Cataracts; suffusion; surgical instruments;De singulari tunicarum utriusque occuli expansione (accompanied by a plate depicting the grotesque distention of the eyes in a hanged man); cancerous ulcers of the eye; plus numerous other articles on hydrophthalmia, staphyloma, corneal fistula, etc.
BREAST CANCER: including a new method of removing it (nova extirpandi methodo); etc.
OBSTETRICS: De capite infantis abrupto (showing obstetrical instruments; some offsetting to the plate); procidentiam uteri (prolapsed uterus); etc.
DISEASES OF THE ABDOMEN, INTESTINES, etc.: De morbis a situ intestinor; hernia incarcerata; sarcocele (testicular tumors) and their extraction; etc.