VELPEAU, Alfred Armand Louis Marie (1795 – 1867)
1795 – 1867
4 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1825 CE
#13301
Traité d'anatomie chirurgicale, ou anatomie des régions, considérée dans ses rapports avec la chirurgie; ouvrage orné de quatorze planches représentant les principales régions du corps. 2 vols.
Some copies were issued with the plates hand-colored. Digital facsimile of a black & white copy from Google Books at this link.
1831 CE
#2977
Mémoire sur la piqûre ou l’acupuncture des artères dans le traitement des anévrismes.
First attempt at operative treatment of aneurysm.
1832 CE
#5592
Nouveaux éléments de médecine opératoire. 3 vols. and atlas.
In its time this was the most comprehensive work on operative surgery in France; it contains some useful historical information. The first English translation appeared in New York, 1835. The atlas for that edition was…
1854 CE
#5771
Traité des maladies du sein et de la région mammaire.
Velpeau was the leading French surgeon of the first half of the 19th century. His treatise on tumors of the breast, his best work, was the most important of its time on the subject. It includes a good account of hyper…