Delpech, Joseph Mathieu (1777-1832) & Fages, Joseph (1764-1824)

Cours d'accouchements fait par MM. Delpech et Fages. A student's notes of lectures. Deals mainly with puerperal fever. Produced in Montpellier.

c. 1815

1 volume 11 ll. 4to. 211/2 x 17 cm. Unbound.

Purchased 1930.

Fages who had been an unsuccessful rival to Delpech in the contest for the chair of clinical surgery at the École de Médecine at Montpellier in 1812, had himself qualified as surgeon in 1789 and later been a military surgeon. In 1814 he was a professor of surgery at Montpellier.

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).