La Faye, Georges de (1699-1781)

Principes de chirurgie. A student's notes of lectures, probably at the Académie royale de Chirurgie in Paris, where La Faye was Démonstrateur. Above the title in an early 19th cent. hand 'Bittig, Médecin à Eaux sus Blois, Dép[artement] de la Haute Marne'. Produced in Paris.

c. 1775

1 volume 3 ll. + 313 pp. 8vo. 181/2 × 111/2 cm. Original vellum binding, repaired.

Purchased 1935.

The author was a celebrated 18th century surgeon, and his 'Principes de Chirurgie', first published in 1739, went into numerous editions and was translated into several languages.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).