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La méthode de traicter les playes faictes par hacquebutes et aultres bastons à feu: & de celles qui sont faictes par fleches, dardz & semblables: assy des combustions specialement faictes par la pouldre à canon.

Publication Details

Paris: Viuant Gaulterot, 1545 CE.

 Paré’s first book was his treatise on gunshot wounds. He is one of the greatest of the military surgeons, and is particularly remembered for his abandonment of the practice of cauterization of gunshot wounds with boiling oil, until his time a universal procedure. Digital facsimile BnF Gallica at this link.

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Entry Number#2139
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/2710
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLla-mthode-de-traicter-les-playes-faictes-par-hacquebutes-et-aultres-bastons-feu-et-de-celles-qui-sont-faictes-par-flches-dardz-et-semblables

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris