Maurice ile

1852 · 53892 — Paris: Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont/ Varnout et Galante 1852. First edition second printing. Softcover. g to vg. Small quarto. 49 1pp. Illustrated blue wrappers with black lettering on the covers. String-tied binding for the book block.<br /> <br /> A scarce illustrated catalog of early vulcanized rubber medical devices manufactured by the French company Varnout et Galante. Included here are more than 80 medical surgical and gynecological instruments designed under the supervision of physician and gynecologist Marie Maurice Gariel 1811-1878. The work includes numerous small engraved figures throughout illustrating various products. Each item is numbered for reference with a description some brief and some longer. The products include not only items related to reproductive medicine and women's health such as breast-feeding instruments vaginal douches tampons urethral probes and urinals for incontinence but also more general medical equipment such as crutches braces bandages protective gloves mattress pads for medical beds restraints compression belts and inflatable cushions. <br /> <br /> This publication is notable and intriguing in that it was produced at a time when both the modern medical field of gynecology was in it's infancy and the revolutionary process of vulcanizing rubber was a newly established industry. Only eight years earlier in 1844 American chemist and engineer Charles Goodyear had patented the groundbreaking process for manufacturing this material on an industrial scale and its wide range of potential uses was just starting to be discovered. The introductory pages extoll the virtues of the new technology of vulcanized rubber and include tables comparing vulcanize to un-vulcanized rubber under various metrics. Table of contents at the rear.<br /> <br /> Text in French.<br /> <br /> Wrappers with minor rubbing to extremities and small chips to the bottom right corners of the front cover and at a few points on the spine. Light foxing at the bottom of the back cover. Interior with a very few tiny sporadic stains but otherwise very clean. Wrappers in good interior in very good condition overall. Scarce. Protected in modern mylar. Full title: Catalogue des Appareils et Instruments de Médecine et de Chirurgie en Caoutchouc Vulcanisé Fabriqués sous la Direction Immédiate de M. Le Doctuer Gariel Par Varnout et Galante<br /> <br /> This second printing is the same in every way to the first printing of the previous year save that the printed year at the bottom of the title page has been adjusted to 1852 instead of 1851.<br /> <br /> Marie Maurice Gariel 1811-1878 was a French physician and gynecologist. He was a member of the Société anatomique de Paris Anatomical Society of Paris and a notable figure in the focus of reproductive medicine and women's health at a time when the field of gynecology was in its early stages. His son was noted French physician and medical engineer Charles-Marie Gariel 1841-1924. Imprimerie Administrative de Paul Dupont/ Varnout et Galante unknown