Vincent Paulet and Jean Sarazin - Traité d'anatomie topographique comprenant les principales applications à la pathologie et à la - 1867-1870

Vincent Paulet and Jean Sarazin, Traité d'anatomie topographique : comprenant les principales applications à la pathologie et à la médecine opératoire. Paris: Victor Masson et Fils, 1867-1870.

4 volumes comprising:

2 text volumes, 8o (235 x 155 mm) and
2 atlas volumes, 4o (270 x 207 mm). 2 leaves, 649 pages; 2 leaves; 650-1064 pages for the text volumes. Two leaves, 88 plates with additional explicative text pages; 2 leaves, with plates with additional explicative text pages.

A total of 164 chromolithographed plates.

Quarter red morocco, marbled boards, spines gilt. Superb binding, fully and properly restored.

Born in 1828 in Montpellier, Vincent Paulet grew up in a military family environment. He obtained a bachelor's degree in letters and sciences, then he studied medicine in his hometown, including clinical surgery and anatomy assistantship (1851). Opting for a career in arms, Paulet returned to Val-de-Grâce, defended his medical thesis – on cholera in Arles – and participated in the Crimean War. He became an associate professor at Val-de-Grâce (1851), where he met Jules Adrien Charles Sarazin. The latter, born in 1831 in Calais, is a medical major in the Emperor’s Hundred Guards squadron. The two men decided to draft the Traite together, but the Italian War interrupted the project. After various assignments, Paulet was appointed chief physician at the Charité hospital in Lyon and professor of anatomy at the faculty of medicine (1877). As a medical inspector, he directed the Health Service in Algiers and Marseille, then moved to Montpellier (1885) where he completed his university career (1898). Paulet died in 1906 of an incurable illness, shortly before his friend Sarazin – who died in 1906 in Marseille.

In 1870, The Prix de medecine et de chirurgie de la Fondation Montyon was awarded to the authors of this book (BMJ 23 Juily 1870);


BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gilis, Paul. Éloge du professeur Vincent Paulet, médecin inspecteur de l’armée (1828-1906) prononcé le 9 novembre 1906, dans la première leçon du cours d’anatomie par le professeur P. Gilis. Montpellier : Imprimerie générale du Midi, 1907.

Guéniot, Maurice-Alexandre. « Décès de M. Paulet ». Bulletin de l’Académie de Médecine, 3ème série. 1906, T. LV, p. 523-525.

Laboulbène, Alexandre. « Anatomie pathologique – Leçon d’ouverture ». Revue des Cours Scientifique de la France et de l’Étranger. T. III, n°47, 20 octobre 1865, pp. 761-768.

Sakka, Michel. Histoire de l’anatomie humaine. Paris : P. U. F., 1997.

Described as ‘FIRST EDITION. RARE’ in a Christie’s auction of 5 October 2007 when it (along with two minor works) sold for $4000, excluding buyer’s fees.