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Claude GALIEN. De l'usage des parties du corps...

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Claude GALIEN. De l'usage des parties du corps humain. Paris, Charles Du Mesnil, 1659. In-4, brown calf, spine with 5 ornate nerves (Period binding). Krivatsy, 4517 /// (8f.)-765-(7f.). Work Translated from Greek and Latin, And put in fine order, by questions & answers for the ease of ieunes Estudians en Chirurgie, by A.E.B.D.C.I. Edition not cited in bibliographies. Krivatsy cites only the 1666 edition, without giving the name of the translator. The form is very pleasant, the work being presented as a question-and-answer game that the student can easily read and revise. Formerly restored binding, stains on a few leaves.