Memoir on a new kind of medicated pad truss for the radical cure of hernia. B/W: Des anévrysmes se la région sus-claviculaire. 2nd title insc. to P. Ricord

Robert, Alphonse (1801-62). Des anévrysmes de la region sus-claviculaire. Thèse . . . 133, [3]pp. Folding plate. Paris: Germer Baillière, 1842. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Ricord on the title: "à M. Ricord souvenir affectueux de son collègue." [Bound with:] Jalade-Lafond, Guillaume. Memoir on a new kind of medicated pad truss, for the radical cure of hernia. Nineteenth edition. x, 5-42pp. 6 plates. London: Baillière's Medical Library; Paris: At the author's residence, 1842. Together 2 works in 1. 209 x 129 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, spotted boards, spine worn, hinges cracking. Minor foxing and toning but very good.

First Edition. Robert, a French surgeon, is eponymously remembered for "Robert's pelvis," a pelvis that is narrowed transversely due to the almost entire absence of the alae of the sacrum. This copy of his medical thesis on aneurysms of the supraclavicular region, inscribed to Philippe Ricord, is bound with the nineteenth edition of Jalade-Lafond's work describing his medicated truss for the treatment of hernia, first published in French in 1839.