DELPECH (Jacques Mathien). Memoire sur la Complication des Plaies et des Ulceres, cooue sous le nom de Pourriture d'Hopital.1815

Paris: Mequignon - Marvis, First edition, [2], viii, 134pp., some light foxing throughout, later cloth. Jacques Mathien Delpech (1777--1832), the pioneer of orthopaedic surgery in France, who erected a large orthopaedic institute in Montpellier. A treatise on humid gangrene: written in the aftermath of Napoleon's Peninsular War "as the thousands of casualties overcrowding the Montpellier hospital had provoked a severe outbreak of the disease." (Norman 617). Formerly in the library of the Birmingham Medical Institute.