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Historical Bibliography Updated: May 5, 2018

La chirurgie da Lanfranc traduit du latin par Guillaume Yvoire.

Publication Details

Lyon: Jean de la Fontaine, 1490 CE.

Lanfranc, the founder of French surgery, was a pupil of William of Salicet. He enjoyed a great reputation for his lecturing and bedside teaching. His Chirurgia magna was completed in 1296. According to Hirsch and others it was first published in Venice in 1490, but no copy of this edition has been traced. Above is a French translation; an English version appeared in 1565. Lanfranc was the first surgeon to describe cerebral concussion and to distinguish between simple hypertrophy and cancer of the breast. He wrote a Chirurgia parva about 1295.  ISTC No. il00051000. Very rare. The ISTC cites only 3 copies: Paris BnF, Torino N, New York, NYAM.

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Entry Number#5553
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/6866
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLla-chirurgie-dalanfranc-traduit-du-latin-par-guillaume-yvoire

Geographic Context

Publication place: Lyon

Mentioned in annotation: New York; Venice; Torino; Paris