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First edition of this thesis, illustrated with 4 plates.
Modern black half-calf binding, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets, marbled-paper boards.
A few minor spots of foxing; stamps of the Library of the Paris Faculty of Medicine on the plates and title page.
Not recorded by V. Rozier.
The author served as chief surgeon to the First Battalion of Foot Grenadiers of the Consular Guard.
He invented an adjustable inclined bed, an instrument for the treatment of compound fractures of the lower jaw, a compression device for use in cases involving severed arteries, and an apparatus designed to transport seriously wounded men over long distances. (See the plates).