Operationes Chirurgicae Novum Lumen Exhibentes by Deventer Hendrick (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to (19.6 cm), contemporary dutch vellum with gold title on label at spine, a good, clean and genuine copy. Engraved frontispiece (bound after the printed title), printed title in red and black, pp. [20 incl. front.], 274, [6 nn.], with 38 figures on 35 engraved plates, some of them signed Phi[lippe] Bouttats. Small stamp of release from a German library on printed title. First Edition in Latin (in the same year as the Dutch original). Deventer gave the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, thus providing the practical basis for modern obstetrics. Deventer made it absolutely clear that the woman's bony pelvis was unyielding during labor, and that pelvic abnormalities and deformities of the spine as well had to be considered by the obstetrician. He corrected Mauriceau's misconception of the growth of the uterus in pregnancy, and made the first attempt at an accurate description of the axis of the birth-canal. Deventer "became interested in bone deformities because of his extensive experience in obstetrics, unusual for a male practitioner at that time. He noted, first, the many abnormal pelves which interfered with parturition. Among them were many cases associated with scoliosis. The latter condition attracted his attention, and much of his effort thereafter was spent in the study of spinal deformities ." (Bick 56). Garrison-Morton n. 6253 (for the Dutch edition). This work was translated into German, French and English, and went out of date only after the mid-nineteenth century. Speert, Milestones 159 & Iconographia 212 & 517. Thoms 11-15. Cutter & Viets 13.