Author: MAYOR, M.
Title: Sur le dessin linéaire en relief, et l'usage, en chirurgie, du fil de fer et du coton... Première [- seconde] Partie.
Description: Paris, Germer-Baillière, Libraire, rue de l'école de médecine, 13 bis, 1836. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. W. 2 engr. fold. pls. at the end (a vague waterst. in both; righthand margin of 2nd plate frayed, w. a small tear in blank margin.). Original blue pr.wr., spine some discol. (II, XII, VIII, 214; 181, III, II (blank) pp.). (Nice uncut copy). Hirsch IV, p. 139: '... berühmter Chirurg, ... hat sich in der Geschichte der Medizin besonders durch seine zum Theil verdienstlichen, grossentheils aber abenteuerlichen und rohen Vorschläge zur Vereinfachung der operativen Chirurgie bekannt gemacht.': Comp. Winnett Orr 861: Not in Waller: Baas 1040: Among the surgeons of French Switserland M. Mayor....(simplification of the dressing of wounds and cathétérisme forcé etc.) and ...., were particularly prominent.: W. 2 nice folding plates depicting a score of inventions and apparatus by Mayor, constructed and or/ invented for the better treatment of wounds and fractures.

Keywords: medicine surgery verbanden W28C