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1786M5114Altenberg:: Richterschen 1786-1787. 1786. Two volumes. 209 x 127 mm. 8vo. xl 536; xl 575 pp. Headpieces tailpieces; lightly browned gutter of Vol. II wormed first 25 pages. Contemporary speckled paper over boards red spine labels gilt spine edges red; spines chipped and wormed corners showing. Crainz rubber stamps on titles. Very good. FIRST GERMAN EDITION of Sue's important medical - historical treatise on midwifery. Pierre Sue was the most outstanding member of the famous French family of physicians. He was an author librarian bibliographer physician and surgeon. His inaugural dissertation for the degree in surgery 1763 was a paper on the Cesarean operation. He was professor of surgery and upon the death of Hevin succeeded him to the chair of therapeutics. In 1794 he became librarian of the Ecole de Sante also professor of bibliography and professor of legal medicine. His first literary medical publication was the translation of Gaubius' Pathologie 1770 which replaced the pathology of Boerhaave. He also published medical anecdotes biographies and a nomenclature of medical dissertations. PROVENANCE: Professor Franco Crainz 1913-2004 Obstetrics and gynecology university professor took his medical degree in 1936 at the University Rome the Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; he was Head obstetrics-gynecology Department University Novara Italy 1956-1964 later becoming head obstetrics-gynecology Department University Rome 1972-1988. Crainz wrote on the history of medicine including a monograph: The Life and Works of Matthew Baillie MD FRS L&E FRCP Etc. 1761-1823 1995 and An Obstetric tragedy: the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta : some unpublished documents of 1817 1977 collected books & papers mostly Italian & European in the history of gynecology. Posthumously published was a paper with John Dewhurst "Dr John Sims. A mystery solved" BJOG 17 May 2005. Blake NLM p. 438; Hirsch V p. 578; Waller 15079. OCLC: 5 copies. Richterschen, 1786-1787. hardcover books