Musee d'anatomie de la faculte de medecine de Strasbourg : histoire des polypes du larynx
| Macro-category | Rare Books and Manuscripts |
| Subcategory | Medicine |
| Author | EHRMANN, CHARLES HENRI |
| Place of printing | Strasbourg |
| Publisher / Maker | Berger Levrault |
| Year | 1850 |
Rare First edition
Ehrmann’s treatise about polyps at the Larynx
No copy on the market, only one copy at auction in the last 40 years
Ehrmann, Charles Henri. Musee d'anatomie de la faculte de medecine de Strasbourg : histoire des polypes du larynx / par C. H. Ehrmann. Strasbourg : Berger Levrault, 1850.
Folio (47,5 x 31 cm), original cardboard with title page printed on front board, f.[1], pp. 36, ff. [12].
6 full page anatomical plates, containing 20 figures
describing the cases discussed in the volume
In this work Ehrmann presents to the scientific environment the results of his studies about polypus of the larynx.
In the year 1844, he was called to attend upon a case of polypus of the larynx, in which death was imminent ; he opened the trachea and larynx, removed the offending growth, and saved the patient's life. This case was reported to the Academy of Sciences, of Paris, and was pronounced to be the first instance in which this operation had been successfully performed in this disease.
Ehrmann then collected the reports of all the well-authenticated cases of this affection which he has found recorded and presented them accompanied by illustrative drawings.
The number of cases which M. Ehrmann reports amounts in all to thirty six:
These were collected from various sources : two are from Lieutaud ; three from Desault ; one from Pelletan ; two from Schultze ; one from Otto ; two from Andral ; one from Senn ; one from Urner ; one from Dupuytren ; one from Brauers ; one from Rayer ; one from Dawosky ; one from Trousseau and Belloc ; one from Gérardin ; one from Mayo ; one from Ryland ; one from Rendtorff ; three from Gluge ; one from Nasse ; one from Stallard ; one from Bertherand ; one from Rue ; and two which he observed himself : the remaining five occurred in animals , two of them in horses, and three in cows. These cases are reported briefly , but satisfactorily as regards the main points, in most of them .
CONDITION: Foxing along the text, waterstain in the lower margin of all leaves.
REFERENCES: The American Journal of medical society, vol XXI, London, Wiley and Miler, 1851, p. 411, not in Heirs of Hyppocrates, Norman, Garrison & Morton, Wellcome.
