Annals of medical history . ue Nationale or in the library of theEcole de Medicine. Not long ago in a Paris catalogue, acopy was advertised, and after a hurriedlook at Malgaigne and the Index Catalogueof the St. Genevieve Library, I sent a tele-gram and was delighted to get the bookwithin forty-eight hours. The provenance isuncertain. It had come in with a number ofunbound volumes and was sent to Cham-boIIe-Duru, in whose famous morocco andunmatched gilding it is now adorned—asmall octavo of 277 pages. The work musthave been a boon to the surgical studentsof St. Corne, very few of whom, like P
Annals of medical history . ue Nationale or in the library of theEcole de Medicine. Not long ago in a Paris catalogue, acopy was advertised, and after a hurriedlook at Malgaigne and the Index Catalogueof the St. Genevieve Library, I sent a tele-gram and was delighted to get the bookwithin forty-eight hours. The provenance isuncertain. It had come in with a number ofunbound volumes and was sent to Cham-boIIe-Duru, in whose famous morocco andunmatched gilding it is now adorned—asmall octavo of 277 pages. The work musthave been a boon to the surgical studentsof St. Corne, very few of whom, like Parehimself, had had a classical training. Botheditions of the great Fabrica had beenpublished, and the text and plates, particu-larly the latter, are largely Vesalian. 6 VV. K. Gregory: Studies on the Evolution ofthe Primates. Bull. Amer. Mus. NatI Hist., 1916,vol. xxxv, pp. 239-355- Editorials 425 The gem of the book is a copper engrav-ing, the earliest known portrait of Pare atthe age of forty-five, a wood-cut of which,. LABOR 1MPROBVS OMNIA. VINCIT • • ^T> +S • -B-- an oval medallion, appeared a few monthslater in La methode curative des playes,etc. Both bear the legend Labor improbusomnia vincit; in the latter work, encirclingthe picture, not at the base. It was repro-duced in the Dix Iivres de la Chirurgie,1564, with the figure 5 changed to 8. It isby far the most pleasing picture, and Ihave not found in the Hope and other col-lections available a reproduction. The im- pression is unusually clear, much more sothan the copies from La methode cura-tive and the Dix just referred to. tsiNtJT IE VNIVERSELLE DV Corps huinain,compofee pat A PareChirurgien ordinaire du Roy ,& lure aParis: reueue & augmenrce par ledit au-theur auec I. Roftaingdu Bignofc Pro-uen$al aufsi Chirurgien lure a Paris.
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