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 Includes the 142 page Supplément au Traité de M. Petit..rédige par M. Lesne, which is often lacking. Petit, considered the greatest French surgeon after Paré, performed the first successful operation for mastoiditis, (described here in vol. 1, pp. 153 and 160),  invented the screw tourniquet, gave the first account of softening of the bones, and of clot formation in arteries following ligation. He improved techniques in amputation and herniotomy and was the first surgeon to form a unified concept of the operation for breast cancer. Petit’s hernia and Petit’s triangle are described in vol. 2, pp. 256-258.The 90 plates, each with several figures, depict virtually every instrument in use in his time.  Heirs of Hippocrates 777,    Garrison-Morton 3357 and 3577.  Waller 7323 . Blake, p. 345. Wellcome IV, 344. Manuscript ex libris Maillard fils on the title pages.