CHAULIAC, Guy de. (JOUBERT, Laurent).

La Grande Chirurgie . Restituée par M. Laurens Ioubert.

      Lyon, Simon Rigaud,1642. - (8)ff + 601 (misnumb. 605) + (11)ff including last blank. Bound with: JOUBERT, Laurent. Annotations . sur toute la Chirurgie de M. Guy de Chauliac. Avec l’interpretation des langues dudit Guy; (c’est dire, L’explication de ses termes plus obscurs) . En cette derniere Edition, on a corrigé plusieurs fautes & manquements . Lyon, Simon Rigaud, 1642. (8)ff + 354pp + (7)ff. First title in red & black, printer’s devices on both titles with woodcut medallion portraits of Joubert on versos and at the end of the Annotations. With 59 woodcuts of surgical instruments on pp 310-355. Contemporary vellum; worn. Revised and corrected edition of the French text of Chauliac’s Chirurgia Magna with extensive commentaries by Laurent Joubert (1529-83), Chancellor of the Medical Faculty at Montpellier, then the most famous medical university worldwide. The French translation is by his son, Isaac Joubert. Guy de Chauliac (1298-1368) studied medicine at Montpellier, Toulouse, Paris, and Bologna. He is considered the first French surgeon and the founder of modern surgery. Chauliac was the first to distinguish between different types of hernias and to offer radical cures for them. His work, written about 1363, comprises his study of fractures, and an extensive section on maladies of the mouth and dental care, here found on pp458-465. The woodcut illustrations of surgical instruments used for this edition are mostly adapted from Paré’s work. Some light marginal waterstaining, but a sound copy with occasional traces of usage. Krivatsy 5155; Poletti, De re dentaria apud veteres, p24 (1659 edn). [Attributes: Hard Cover]