MALGAIGNE, Joseph François (1806 – 1865)
1806 – 1865
6 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source Unknown author Unknown author · Fielding Hudson Garrison, An introduction to the history of medicine: with medical chronology, bibliographic data, and test questions London & Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1914. · Public domain
1834 CE
#5591
Manuel de médecine opératoire.
Malgaigne was a brilliant lecturer, notable also as a historian of medieval surgery. His Manuel was an important work on operative surgery, and was translated into English, German, Italian, and Arabic.
1838 CE
#5594
Traité d’anatomie chirurgicale et de chirurgie expérimentale. 2 vols.
1840 CE
#5790
Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.
Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating su…
1840 CE–1841 CE
#59
Oeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.
The best edition of Paré’s works, edited by Malgaigne. An English translation of Pare's Oeuvres by Thomas Johnson appeared as early as 1634. See also No. 5565. Janet Doe published A bibliography of the wo…
1844 CE
#5746
Nouvelle méthode pour l’opération du bec-de-lièvre.
Malgaigne’s two-flap method for repair of cleft lip. English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.
1847 CE–1855 CE
#4417
Traité des fractures et des luxations. 2 vols. and atlas.
This was Malgaigne’s greatest work. His description of bilateral vertical fracture of the pelvis (“Malgaigne’s fracture”) is in vol. 1, pp. 650-56. English translation of the first volume on fr…