OEvres du Docteur Jules Guérin. Tome Premier [and Atlas; all published]. (Recherches sur les Difformités Congénitales chez les Monstres, le Foetus et l'Enfant.)

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Paris:: Au Bureau de la Publication, 1. 0-1882. hardcover. 11. Thick 8vo with ATLAS volume. 807, [ads.] 16 pp. (Text vol.) Figs.; lightly foxed throughout, pages unopened. (Atlas vol.) 28 engraved plates of deformities in children, fetuses, and animals with detailed descriptions; corner torn (p. 1), plate III lower margin a tad worn (engraving unaffected). Atlas vol. neatly rebacked preserving original blind stamped brown cloth boards, new gilt spine; extremities rubbed, corners showing. Text vol. full original gilt & blind stamped maroon cloth; short tears to spine ends neatly repaired. Very good. EXTREMELY RARE. . FIRST EDITION. Fascinating study of deformity with beautifully illustrated atlas volume. A detailed study of deformity and monsters by the French surgeon Guérin. The author had an idea that neuro-muscular contraction was the cause of these deformities. The engraved plates in the atlas are expertly drawn by the artist Berthiau, and graphically depict the deformities described. Guérin is best remembered for this work, though at the age of 80, he also "challenged [Louis] Pasteur to a duel over remarks Pasteur had made concerning preparation of an antirabies vaccine (1880), an occurrence that reflects intolerance of and resistance to innovative ideas." Wangensteen, The Rise of Surgery, p. 420. While there is a plan published for a continuing series of volumes for this proposed collected works of the author, no further volumes are known to exist. Hirsch, II, p. 689. Not in: Brunet, Garrison and Morton, Poggendorff, Osler, & Waller.

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