Ravaton,M. - CHIRURGIE D'ARMEE ou Traité des Plaies d'Armes a Feu, et d'Armes Blanches, avec des Observations sure ces Maladies

Paris, P.Fr.Didot le Jeune 1768 plates [7 numbered 1-7] includes various prosthetic limbs, surgical implements, setting for fractures etc. . Octavo newer cloth spined boards [corners worn but no impact on text] viii + 681pp [recte 685] +[1p=aprobation. Title & dedication leaf with repaired tear + one further tear to margin which has been repaired. Cover loose, book split in three. Earlier ed. published in 1750 under title: Traité des plaies d'armes à feu. Garrison-Morton 2154. *An important work covering the treatment of gunshot wounds, this edition is greatly different to the 1750 edition and some describe it therefore as a 1st editon. Ravaton was a notable military surgeon and wrote alongside this work "Ravaton wrote the longest volume ever published on the treatment of blade wounds in wartime". He was considered a pioneer of safe amputations, developing the "double flap method".

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