Memoir on the radical cure of club-foot; translated from the French by F. Campbell Stewart, M.D., of Williamsburg, VA. To Thomas Harris, M. D. …

first edition

1840 · Philadelphia:

by SCOUTETTEN, Henri (Raoul-Henri-Joseph) (1799-1871).
Philadelphia:: A. Waldie, 1840., 1840. Extracted from: Dunglison's American Medical Library: Medical and Surgical Monographs. 23 cm. 8vo. [189]-238, [2] pp. 6 folding lithographic plates. Later marbled wrappers. Very good. First edition in English. By the prominent French military surgeon and medical historian whose popular treatise on the surgical treatment of club-foot was also translated into German and Italian. The booklet shows various types of club feet and the final plate also shows the device used to treat the condition, involving ratchets and foot straightening apparatus. The procedure should have been very painful. However, the results shown (truncated)
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