Hernia Bandages: Past and Present

Description

RAINAL Léon & Jules Frères, illustrated by M. DE RUAZ. Masson et Cie, Éditeurs - Librairie de l'Académie de Médecine. Paris, 1899, softbound, in-4° format, approximately 28x20 cm, 324 figures interspersed throughout the text, engravings executed by M. de Ruaz from documents of the Bibliothèque Nationale, with coat of arms of the Community of Gibeciers Bandage Makers, 348 pages. Book I: Historical overview of hernia bandages from antiquity through the 19th century, covering archaeological bandages from Celsus to Avicenna, Ali Abbas to Ambroise Paré, development through the 17th-18th centuries, bandage-maker corporations, and 19th-century progress. Book II: Modern French bandages, pellets, and treatments for various hernia types (femoral, scrotal, epiplocele, inguinal in children, umbilical, abdominal, lumbar), radical cure methods, hernia statistics, application techniques, and supplementary uses. Sections on modern and traditional manufacturing. Rare copy.