A. Nélaton - Élémens de Pathologie Chirurgicale - 1844-1859

A four-volume set, though it comprises the five volumes, of this medical treatise devoted to the study of diseases and lesions falling under surgery, in a period when French medicine is undergoing a profound transformation based on clinical observation, anatomical examination and operative experience - Auguste Nélaton, who would become one of the most reputed French surgeons of the nineteenth century, seeks in this work to present in a methodical way the main affections likely to be encountered by the surgeon, linking their symptoms, their progression, their presumed causes, their complications and the available therapeutic means - Surgical pathology then gradually distinguishes itself from a simple description of external diseases to become an organized clinical discipline centered on the precise identification of lesions, their anatomical localization and their consequences for the functioning of the organism - A. Nélaton - Elements of Surgical Pathology - 1844/1859 - Volume I, II, III and IV - Germer Baillière - 3708 Pages. Good condition of bindings, volumes in their violet half-leather, marbled boards, wear from use, some minor defects on covers, spines, corners and edges worn, speckled edges, long decorated spine, gilded titles and volume numbers - Good interior condition, some stains, rare foxing, volumes enriched with a few black engravings intercalated in the text, handwritten page, endpapers in good condition, pleasant overall - Delivery service assured within a few days -

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