1564 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)

Dix livres de la chirurgie avec le magasin des instruments necessaires à icelle.

Paré’s first general treatise on surgery, and the most comprehensive of his treatises before his collected works (1575). Dix livres included Paré's first description of the use of the ligature in amputations, one of h…

GMN 3668.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6937

1575 PARÉ, Ambroise (1510 – 1590)

Les oeuvres de M. Ambroise Paré.

Paré was the greatest of the army surgeons before Larrey. Born in poor circumstances, he became the most famous surgeon in France. He is particularly remembered for his abandonment of boiling oil and the cautery (No. …

GMN 5565 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6944

1842 FRITZE, Hermann Eduard (1811 – 1866); KLUGE, Karl Alexander Ferdinand (Carl) (1782 – 1844)

Arthroplastik oder die sämmtlichen, bisher bekannt gewordenen künstlichen Hände und Füsse, zum Ersatz dieser verloren gegangenen Gliedmassen, nach Manuscripten des...C. A. F. Kluge... bearbeitet und abgebildet von H. E. Fritze. Mit 26 in Stein gravirten Tafeln.

This work with its elaborate series of 26 lithographed schematic drawings was certainly the most comprehensive work on hand and foot protheses of its time. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

GMN 12862 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15109