LETTERA ANTICRITICA DEL DOTTORE D. GIUSEPPE CACIOLI DI FIRENZE Chirurgo Del Reggimento Infanteria Val Di Mazzara, DIRETTA AL SIGNOR D. GIUSEPPE MARINO DOTTORE IN CHIRURGIA, Peritissimo Litotomo, e Chirurgo Maggiore del Regio Ospedale de' Militari della Citta di Trapani.

(Grima, Michel'Angiolo, 1729-1798). Cacioli, Giuseppe.

Published by In Palermo: Nella Stamperia di Stefano Amato, MDCCLXIII (1763). (1763)., 1763

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In Palermo: Nella Stamperia di Stefano Amato, MDCCLXIII (1763)., (1763). Very good. - Octavo, 7-1/2 inches high by 5-5/8 inches wide. Softcover, bound in printed self-wrappers with an engraved device on the title page, laid into later marbled wrappers. 36 exquisitely printed pages on laid paper, illustrated with an engraved initial, a headpiece and a tailpiece. The signatures (group of pages) are detached. There is a tiny chip to the bottom front corner of the title page. A bright attractive book. RARE. We have not been able to locate any other copies of this work. Presumed First and only edition. The pamphlet is a response to a work criticizing a publication by the Maltese trauma surgeon Michel'Angiolo Grima. The response is written by a military surgeon in Sicily and is addressed to another Sicilian military surgeon. Michel'Angiolo Grima (1729-1798) performed experiments on live dogs, publishing his findings in "Del nuovo e sicuro metodo di cucire gl'intestini allora quando in occasione di ferite o di altri vengan offese od allontanati dalla loro naturale contiguita". [A new and safe method of sewing the intestines when they are separated from their natural contiguity.] (Paris: Le Breton, 1760). "Injuries to the abdominal viscera were rarely actively treated, though musket balls impacted in the liver were extracted. In spite of his reluctance to operate on abdominal viscera injuries Grima had performed animal experiments to test the use of the cucitura spirale to perform end-to-end anastimosis. In his work published in 1760. Grima suggested that this technique could be used in cases of open injuries of the abdomen especially when this is complicated by prolapse and gangrene of the bowels.Grima's work on intestinal suturing came under criticism by his contemporaries G. Azzopardi and G. Bruno who in their 1762 publication 'Lettera apologetica contro la Dissertazione' claimed that Grima's suggestion was not an original one." -Quoted from an article by C. Savona-Ventura and G.G. Buttigieg published by the Association of Surgeons of Malta, 2008. The critique of Grima by Gaetano Azzopardi and the Maltese physician Giovanni Spiridione Bruno was published in Messina in 1762. Seller Inventory # 98946

Bibliographic Details

Title: LETTERA ANTICRITICA DEL DOTTORE D. GIUSEPPE ...

Publisher: In Palermo: Nella Stamperia di Stefano Amato, MDCCLXIII (1763). (1763).

Publication Date: 1763

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very good