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MANECAS (Pierre Joseph). Traité théorique et pratique de la Ligature des Artères.1832
Paris: H. Tilliard for Crochard, First Edition, folio, 475 x 310 mm, half-title 13 partly hand-coloured lithograph plates, each accompanied by an unnumbered text explanatory leaf, some foxing, old ink library stamp on title and back of plates, [3], 32, [12] pp., later half calf. Pierre-Joseph Manecas surgeon, anatomist: elder brother of the former. Brillant anatomiste il fut prosecteur puis chef de travaux d'anatomie à la faculté de médecine de Paris. Brilliant anatomist, he was then chief prosector works of anatomy at the Medical Faculty of Paris. On lui doit des travaux sur la hernie crurale - son sujet de thèse- et sur la neurologie et l'anatomie des nerf en particulier du nerf splanchnique et sur la ligature artérielle. He must work on crural hernia - his thesis-and neurology and anatomy of nerve especially splanchnic nerve and artery ligation. A près une carrière parisienne durant laquelle il fut chirurgien à l'hôpital de la Salpetrière il regagna son pays natal où il mourrut à l'âge de 85 ans. RC. A fter a career in Paris during which he was a surgeon at the Salpetriere hospital he returned to his homeland where he Mourrut at the age of 85 years. Wellcome, lV, p.41.
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