Traité de chirurgie

Traité de chirurgie [etc.]. The text of Vol. 1, is unfinished. The second volume, though lettered on the spine 'Traité de chirurgie', contains a 'Traité des maladies des enfants' followed by 'Traité des maladies externes de la teste'. Produced in Montpellier.

c. 1725

2 volumes 2 vols. 4to. 22 x 161/2 cm. Original stamped calf-gilt binding: that of Vol. 1 damaged.

Purchased 1913.

These two volumes have been identified as French versions of lectures given at Montpellier by the celebrated Pierre Chirac, though the texts differ from those of the Latin lectures, but the subjects are the same and some receipts given are identical in both versions.

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).

MS. 1611 contains a practically identical text with that of the 'Maladies des enfants' of Vol. II, written by a Dr. Rochevalier, and of probably contemporary date.

On the fly-leaf of each volume is inscribed 'Appartient à Dutoye', who may possibly be Franciscus Dutoy who wrote an Inaugural Dissertation 'De spina ventosa' published at Prague in 1744.