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LE DRAN, HENRI-FRANÇOIS. Parallèle des Différentes Manières de tirer la Pierre hors de la Vessie. 5 folding engraved plates. [2], vii, [3], 195,

LE DRAN, HENRI-FRANÇOIS. Parallèle des Différentes Manières de tirer la Pierre hors de la Vessie. 5 folding engraved plates. [2], vii, [3], 195, [5] pages * Suite du Parallèle des Différentes Manières de faire l'Extraction de la Pierre qui est dans la Vessie Urinaire. 3 folding engraved plates, of which one is bound at end of preceding work, the 2 others each followed by unnumbered leaf of explanatory text. [4], 97, [3] pages. Together, 2 volumes in one. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine missing top compartment, chipped at bottom, joints cracked, cords intact; text browned in first work, plates browned in second. Bookplate of Howard A. Kelly. Paris: Charles Osmont, 1730; widow Delaguette, 1756

  • Notes: first editions. "Le Dran... improved the operation of lithotomy. Murphy credits him for originating the lateral lithotomy usually attributed to Cheselden"--Garrison-Morton 4283. Heirs of Hippocrates 807.

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