LIEUTAUD, HISTORIA ANATOMICO-MEDICA, 2 vols., 1767
HISTORIA ANATOMICO-MEDICA; SISTENS Numerorsissima Cadaverum humanorum Extispicia, quibus in apricum venit genuina Morborum sedes ; horumque reserantur causae, vel patent effectus. OPUS QUADRIPARTITUM, Cujus Liber primus recenset laesiones internas abdominis. Secundus exhibet variam stragem pectoris. Tertius prodit diversam labem cerebri. Quartus verò vitia externa colligit. Auctore JOSEPHO LIEUTAUD, Academia Regiae Scientiarum Parisiensis, & Societatis Regiae Londinensis; Cubiculario SERE-NISSIMI DELPHINI, necnon STIRIPIS REGIAE Medico. Recensuit & suas observationes numero plures adjecit, uberrimumque indicem nosologico ordine concinnavit ANTONIUS PORTAL Doct. Med. & Societatis Regiæ Scientiarum Monspeliensis necnon SERENISSIMI DELPHINI Professor Anatomes. TOMUS PRIMUS (and SECUNDUS). PARISIIS, Apud VINCENT, Serenissimi Comitis GALLO- PROVINCIAE Typographum, vià Sancti Severini. M DCC LXVIl. CUM APPROBATIONE ET PRIVILEGIO REGIS.
Two full brown mottled leather volumes with title labels, raised bands, and gold text and ornamentation on spines. Front board of vol 1 stained. Hinges cracked or cracking. Heads and tails of spines chipped. Red page edges. Ex libris copies with book plates on verso of each ffep. Some mild toning of edges of first few leaves. A few ill-defined light marginal stains, as well as in gutter of much of vol 1. Pages crisp and bright. Bindings tight.
Vol 1: ffep, half title, full title, (xlviii), 540, (4), blank, rfep. Vol 2: ffep, blank, half title, full title (xvi), 606, (2), blank, rfep
The first edition of Lieutaud’s rarest work. Not in G-M, Waller, or Heirs, however, see Heirs 545: “Pathological anatomy in France is said to begin with Lieutaud, physician to Kings Louis XV and XVI. This practical text of anatomy stresses the clinical implications of various structures and has been called the first surgical anatomy. Lieutaud is especially known for his descriptions of the heart and its cavities and the structure of the urinary bladder, as well as for numerous corrections of anatomical errors.”
Garrison-Morton 396 (regarding the 1742 first edition), states that “the trigonum vesicae is named ‘Lieutaud’s trigone’.” (The trigone is a triangular region of the urinary bladder, with its three points defined by the ostia of the two ureters as well as that of the urethra).
Lieutaud also published other titles on anatomy (Waller 14075), medicine (Waller 5816), and pharmacology (Heirs 546).
