Joseph-Guichard Du Verney - Traité des maladies des os - 1759

New edition of this reference work given by Joseph-Guichard du Verney (1648-1730), in which he addresses bone diseases and their treatments.

Enhanced with a speech by Doctor Antoine Louis, the work includes a Practical Treatise on the treatment of fractures (volume 1) and dislocations (volume 2) of different parts of the body with their causes, the risks of superinfections, instruments and case examples.

Decorated with two folding plates and some woodcut figures in the text depicting different instruments, armchairs, splints or bandages.

One of the earliest works to comprehensively and exclusively address bone diseases; it is, along with Petit’s earlier work on the same subject, the most influential of these early orthopedic texts. It was written before Andry’s Orthopaedics but was published nine years later. Duverney subscribes to the theory that clubfoot is caused by an imbalance of the muscles of the foot and ankle. Like all of Duverney’s works, except for the one on the ear that made him famous, this publication was released posthumously.

Set in two period bindings in full brown calf, with spines divided into five compartments decorated with gilded panels and fleurons, with gilded initials, and red edges.
Solid volumes, covers of volume 1 are peeled, corners are bumped, cuts are rubbed. Fragments of headdress have flown off at the head of each volume. Interior is well preserved, with some scattered foxing.

Joseph-Guichard Du Verney, or Duverney, born in Feurs in Forez on August 5, 1648, and died in Paris on September 10, 1730, was a French physician known for his work in anatomy.
He was a member of the Academy of Sciences since 1676. During the reorganization in 1699, he became an anatomical pensioner, the first holder appointed by Louis XIV on January 28, 1699. Alongside Claude Perrault (1613-1688) and Jean Pecquet (1622-1674), he exerted a significant influence on the revival of anatomical studies, which had fallen into neglect. He was the professor of Pierre Dionis (1643-1718), to whom he transmitted his role as demonstrator in 1673, Jacques-Bénigne Winslow (1669-1760), Jean-Baptiste Sénac (1693-1770), and François-Joseph Hunauld (1701-1742).


Joseph-Guichard Du Verney
Treatise on Bone Diseases
Paris at Cavelier in 1759.
T1 2 ff.n.ch., 67 pp., 320 pp., 2 folding plates; T2 1 ff.n.ch., 2 pp. (483 and 484), 430 pp. pages.
2 vol. in-12 (16.5x10cm)