Dupuytren, Lecons orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, 1836

Lecons orales de Clinique Chirurgicale, faites a l’hotel-dieu de Paris, M. le Baron Dupuytren, chirurgien en chef. Recueillies et publiees par une societe fr medecins. Bruxelles, 1836. 
Four volumes bound in two. 
 
Octavos in contemporary half calf bindings. Leather with marbled boards and page edges. Hinges repaired. Leather repaired at top of spine on first volume. Text block variable foxed (mostly prelims), otherwise clean, bright, and tight. Marginal line drawn by a paragraph on plastics. Previous dealer’s pencil notation on pastedown and fly leaf. Overall good condition. Text in French.
 
Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835). He was "the most oustanding general surgeon in France in the early nineteenth century...whose work on surgical treatment of aneurysm was outstanding...and also wrote an exhaustive work on war wounds." (Singer, 184/5).
 
"Dupuytren played a part in the development of orthopaedics, though his interests were much wider. A certain type of fracture of the fibula and a contracture of the fascia of the palm of the hand still bear his name. He was the first to treat wry-neck by division of the sternomastoid muscle" (Singer p 658).
 
"Dupuytren was born in poverty and died a millionaire. He became the best surgeon of his time in France. He was a “shrewd diagnostician, an operator of unrivaled aplomb, a wonderful clinical teacher, and a good experimental physiologist and pathologist” (Garrison); his greatest contributions were in the field of surgical pathology. Vol. 1, p. 424 contains Dupuytren's classification of burns. English translation by A. S. Doane, Boston, 1833." (G-M 2247/5590)