Mélanges de Chirurgie. [in two parts]

Paris: Gay, Belin, Villier , Rigot, Croulbois, Durville, 1801. First Edition. Full Calf. Very Good+. First Edition. Full Calf. Translation to English: Miscellaneous surgery [including, in particular, "Singular increase in size of the bones of a 39-year-old man" and "dissertation on repercussions to the head"...This book brings together the main works of the author. The first part contains his dissertation on counter-strokes to the head, which won the first prize of the Academy of Surgery in 1768, "with a note and three observations added during printing". Saucerotte distinguishes eight kinds of backlash, the mechanism of which he explains. He then outlines the symptomatology and the diagnosis, then shares his innovative and remarkable animal experiments for the time, intended to find the seat of the lesions and thus establish anatomo-clinical correlations. Saucerotte then deals with prognosis and treatment, before reporting 27 observations (personal or taken from the literature). In the second part, rich in often unpublished observations, we find (pp. 407-417) the first clear observation of acromegaly, under the title "Singular increase in size of the bones of a 39-year-old man. This remarkable observation will be taken up, along with four others, in the famous article by Pierre Marie, which completed the description of the disease, in 1886. Mild edgewear to head and tail, chipping, some toning, otherwise tight, bright, and clean. Full mottled calf over boards, gilt decorations/spine labels, marbled endpapers. 2 volumes with continuous pagination; T. I: (4), VII, 347 pp. ; T. II: (4), 349 to 640, (2) pp. (table).