Author: BONNET, A.
Title: Traité des maladies des articulations accompagné d'un atlas de 16 planches. Tome premier [Tome seconde]. And: Atlas de 16 planches contenant 58 dessins.
Description: Paris, Lyon, J.B. Baillière, Germer Bailliere, Charles Savy jeune, 1845. 8vo and small folio. 2 text vols. & 1 atlas vol., containing 16 lith. pls. ['Lith. H. Storck a Lyon' or 'Imp. Lith. de H. Storck a Lyon']. Textvols. in comtemp hlf. brown mor., giltruled and giltlett., over marbled brds. Atlas vol. in the original brown pr. wr. (Upper and lower cover along spine some dam. and chipped, edges of covers somewhat frayed, hole in lower wr. w. loss of [parts of] advertisement text). [n2, *8, **8, ***7, 1-36 in 8s, 37 in 4; n2, 1-40 in 8s, 41 in 4]. (L,582; IV 647, I (blank) pp.; Atlas IV pp., followed by 16 lith. pls.) (Throughout some browning and medium foxing in text vols and atlas vol.). (Bookplates on upper paste downs 'Dr. M.H.J.C. Thomassen'). Wellcome Vol. II, p. 200: Waller Vol. I p. 1286: H. of H. nr. 940: 'Bonnet was physician to the Hotel Dieu in Lyon where he held the posts of Chirurgien-majeur and Chirurgien en chef and established himself as a noted orthopedic surgeon. The text to this, his most famous work, details the clinic symptoms and combined medical and orthopedic treatment of diseases of the joints. The finely executed lithographs in the atlas illustrate a variety of conditions and therapeutic techniques, incl. immovable dressings, for which Bonnet was especially noted': 'Truman Blocker, p.46: De Fourmestraux, p. 76 a.o.pl.:

Keywords: medicine chirurgie surgery orthopaedics bones lithography Anatomy W16