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Richerand, M. Le Chevalier [Balthasar Anthelme]. Histoire des Progrés Récens de la Chirurgie (Paris: Chez Béchet Jeune, 1825) (History of Recent Progress in Surgery). Not in Garrison & Morton, Fifth Edition.
Octavo. xvi, 344 pages with 55 page catalogue appended, dated September, 1825. Hardcover. Bound in half calf with marbled boards.
Condition: VG with minor damp staining to first 20 or so pages, minor loss to page 5-6 not affecting text. Ex-libris stamp on title page and first page of text with bleed through and mirrored on facing page (please see photos). Foxing (more like spotting) throughout.
Anthelme Louis Claude Marie Richerand , (also known as Anthelme-Balthasar) born on in Belley , died on in Paris , is a French surgeon and physiologist , member of the Academy of Medicine …
En 1825, il prit l’initiative d’une « Histoire des progrès récents de la chirurgie », dans laquelle il eut le tort de livrer des attaques contre de nombreux chirurgiens français et spécialement contre Guillaume Dupuytren, qui occupait alors une place prééminente ; la lutte se poursuivit à l’Académie et même à la Faculté de médecine jusqu’à l’invective, ce qui choqua la communauté médicale ; à cela, s’ajouta, sa prise de position enthousiaste en faveur de l’Angleterre et de ses savants, ce qui acheva de le déconsidérer aux yeux de ses confrères, mais également de l’opinion publique. (In 1825, he took the initiative of a “History of the recent progress of surgery”, in which he made the mistake of launching attacks against many French surgeons and especially against Guillaume Dupuytren , who then occupied a pre-eminent place; the struggle continued at the Academy and even at the Faculty of Medicine until the invective, which shocked the medical community; to this was added his enthusiastic position in favor of England and her learned men, which finally brought him into disrepute in the eyes of his colleagues, but also of public opinion.) – Wikipedia.fr
