The major surgery of Guy de Chauliac : surgeon and master in medicine of the University of Montpelier : written in 1363, here re-edited and collated from Latin and French editions and complemented with illustrations, supplemented with notes and an historical introduction about the Middle Ages and the life and the works of Guy de Chauliac /
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| Author / Creator: | Guy, de Chauliac, approximately 1300-1368. |
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| Uniform title: | Chirurgia magna. English |
| Imprint: | [Philadelphia] : Xlibris Corporation, c2007. |
| Description: | h, xx, 692 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6654782 |
| Summary: | Even the brightest lights grow dim if they are not attended, and the great old torch-bearers and their works needs refreshment. After Nicaise all the Europeans, except the English speaking people, had new editions and translations of Guy's Major Surgery. With this translation of Nicaise's edition, all of the eight seminal treatises by the surgeons who brought surgery anew into Europe now are available to the English-Reader. The long discursive Introductions and footnotes by Nicaise and Joubert, and footnotes and explanatory insertions by this translator supplement Guy's text with a fine history of French surgery. Indeed, as Nicaise wrote in the historical Introduction to his edition of Pierre Franco, if we were to combine the introductions in his editions of Henri de Mondeville, Pierre Franco, and Guy de Chauliac with Malgaigne's Introduction to his edition of Ambroise Pare, we will have a complete history of European Surgery before the modern era. Guy's era was that of the Great Plague, and his book was written after its first invasion. His respectful attitude toward his colleagues and his suave gentility secured him as an officer of the Church, and as a Surgeon for The Popes at Avignon. |
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| Item Description: | English translation of: La grande chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac. Paris : Ancienne Librairie Germer Baillière et Cie, 1890. Errata slip inserted. |
| Physical Description: | h, xx, 692 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. f-g). |
| ISBN: | 9781425773434 1425773435 9781425773168 1425773168 |