Lafourcade, Raymond Fils ( -1784)

L'art de saigner accommodé aux principes de la circulation du sang. At the bottom on the third leaf from the end 'Fin du traité de la saignée. Fait par moi F. G.'. The younger Lafourcade was professor of surgery at Bordeaux. Produced in Bordeaux.

c. 1775

1 volume 110 ll. 4to. 191/2 × 151/2 cm. Original vellum binding. Some leaves at the beginning slightly wormed.

Purchased 1909.

Phillipps M.S. No. 1012, with his library stamp. Sold at Sotheby's 9/6/1899, Lot 863.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).