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Les Œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy, 1st edition, 1575
Les Œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy, 1st edition, 1575

France, 1575

Paré, Ambroise

Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590. Les Œuvres de M. Ambroise Paré, conseiller et premier chirurgien du Roy. Avec les figures & portraicts tant de l'anatomie que des instruments de chirurgie, & de plusieurs monstres. Le tout divise en vingt six livres (transl. from French: The works of Mr. Ambroise Paré, advisor and first surgeon to the King. With figures & portraits of both anatomy and surgical instruments, & several monsters. The whole is divided into twenty-six books). Paris, Gabriel Buon, 1575, the first edition. This unique book is the cornerstone that laid the foundation for modern surgery in France and the rest of Europe, the most important surgical book of the 16th century.

PIROGOV, Nikolay Ivanovich (1810-1881) at the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War
Grundzuge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie, 1864

Germany, 1864

Pirogov, Nikolay Ivanovich

PIROGOV, Nikolay Ivanovich (1810-1881). Grundzuge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie nach Reminiscenzen aus den Kriegen in der Krim und im Kaukasus und aus der Hospitalpraxis (Principles of general war surgery after reminiscences from the wars in the Crimea and the Caucasus and from hospital practice), Leipzig: F.C.W. Vogel, 1864. 8vo (Vol.I: 224 x 152 x 27 mm), in German language. The world's first edition

Chirurgie 1673 Lorenz Heister Title Page
Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundarzney (Surgery, in which everything that belongs to...)

Germany, 1763

Heister, Lorenz

Lorenz Heister (1683-1758). Chirurgie, in welcher alles, was zur Wundarzney gehöret, nach der neuesten und besten Art, gründlich abgehandelt... ("Surgery, in which everything that belongs to the surgical procedure is thoroughly dealt with in the latest and best way..."). 16+1078+24 pages, 38 engravings. Publisher: Gabriel Nicolaus Raspe, Nuremberg, 1763. 

Title pages of the book "Cours d'opérations de chirurgie démontrées au Jardin Royal par M Dionis", Paris 1773
Cours d'opérations de chirurgie démontrées au Jardin Royal par M Dionis... in 2 Vol.

France, 1773

La Faye, Georg de

Cours d'opérations de chirurgie démontrées au Jardin Royal par M Dionis, Premier chirurgien de feues Mesdames les Dauphines et chirurgien Juré à Paris, en dix démonstrations (Course of surgical operations demonstrated at the Royal Garden by M Dionis, First surgeon to the late Mesdames les Dauphines and Sworn surgeon in Paris, in ten demonstrations). Published by the widow of Houry, printer and bookseller to Mgr le Duc d'Orléans, rue St Séverin, near rue St Jacques. Paris, 1773. Two volumes. A classic work on surgery, reprinted several times throughout the 18th century. Dionis' lessons cover the whole of operative medicine in ten demonstrations, from the lower abdomen to the head and eyes. Additional remarks by La Faye present discoveries made since the first edition, published in 1707.

Pirogoff N. Principles of general war surgery after reminiscences from the wars in the Crimea and the Caucasus and from hospital practice, Leipzig, 1864. In 2 bands
Grundzüge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie, 1864 in 2 vol.

Germany, 1864

Pirogov, Nikolay Ivanovich

PIROGOV, Nikolay Ivanovich (1810-1881). Grundzuge der allgemeinen Kriegschirurgie nach Reminiscenzen aus den Kriegen in der Krim und im Kaukasus und aus der Hospitalpraxis, Leipzig, F. C. W. Vogel, 1864. In 2 Volumes (1: iv, 1-528 pp. and 2: 529-1168 pp., 1 nn Errata page). 'Principles of general war surgery after reminiscences from the wars in the Crimea and the Caucasus and from hospital practice' in German language. The world's first edition.

Augen-Dienst: Oder Kurtz und deutlich verfasster Bericht von allen... (Ophthalmology by Bartisch, published at 1686)
Augen-Dienst: Oder Kurtz und deutlich verfasster Bericht von allen... (Ophthalmology by Bartisch)

Germany, 16 C.

Bartisch, Georg

Augen-Dienst: Oder Kurtz und deutlich verfasster Bericht von allen und jeden in- und äusserlichen Mängeln Schäden Gebrechen und Zufällen der Augen (Eye Service: or report of all and every internal and external defects, damages, infirmities, and accidents of the eyes), Author: Georg Bartisch, Publisher: Georg Scheurer, Nuremberg, 1686

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Ambroise Paré, fragment of the engraving portrait dated 1582. Credit: Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de Santé, Paris.
Paré, Ambroise

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590), considered to be 'père de la chirurgie française' (father of French surgery).

Nikolay Pirogov painted by Ilya Repin in 1881
Pirogov, Nikolay Ivanovich

Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov (Russian: Николай Иванович Пирогов; 25.11.1810 – 5.12.1881) was a renowned Russian surgeon, "The father of Russian field surgery" and "The father of Russian topography anatomy", scientist, professor of surgery, publicist and author. Pirogov promoted surgical anaesthesia in Russian Empire, was the first who describe some negative effects and possible complications of general anaesthesia. He was one of the first in the world introducing ether anaesthesia on the battlefield.

The field-surgeon performing leg's amputation. Illustration from the Feldtbuch Der Wundarzney by Hans von Gersdorff. Source: The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard School of Medicine, USA
Gersdorff, Hans von

Hans von Gersdorff (1455-1529) was a German surgeon and medical writer who lived during the 15th and early 16th centuries. He is best known for his military surgical experience and his influential medical manual, the Feldtbuch der Wundarzney (Field Book of Wound Medicine), which became one of the most widely used surgical textbooks in medieval Europe. His work played a crucial role in shaping the field of surgery, particularly in the treatment of battlefield injuries, amputations, and wound care.

 

 

Georges de La Faye (1699-1781), source: wikimedia
La Faye, Georg de

Georges de La Faye (1699-1781), French surgeon, Principes de chirurgie. A student's notes of lectures at the Académie royale de Chirurgie in Paris, where La Faye was Démonstrateur.