Mémoires et observations sur l'anatomie, la pathologie, et la Chirurgie
Paris: Chez madame la veuve NYON 1806. xxiv, 496 pages plus 7 plates. 8vo. Quarter calf over marbled boards. Spine with gold ruling and title lettering, '41328' at top and removed spine lettering at spine base . An exlibrary copy. Top portion of half title page excised, leaving "Memoires sur l'Anatomie'. Library stamp and '41328' on title page. Bright and clean internally otherwise. 7 folding plates in rear, beautifully illustrated (1 in color). One plate has 2 separations at one fold. Very Good. Boards. [17214]
Although marked Tome Premier, this was the only volume published.
Contains the first adequate description of Tenon's Capsule - a structure that Tenon did not discover but did sufficient descriptive and investigative work to warrant the recognition. "A collection of twenty-five memoirs by a celebrated Parisian anatomist, surgeon, and ophthalmologist [Tenon]. The first eleven essays deal with ophthalmological subjects and include his "Observations anatomiques sur quelques parties de l'oeil et des paupieres" (p. [193]-207) which presents his famous description of the fibrous capsule and the interfascial space of the orbit. Known to anatomists since Galen as the 'tunica adnata,' details of the fascia surrounding the eyeball were first discovered and adequately described by Tenon in this work. His investigations were largely forgotten until the strabismus operation, introduced by Dieffenbach (110) and Bonnet (54) and Dalrymple (90), revived anatomical investigations of the orbit.
Tenon's observations and descriptions are eponymously recognized in "Tenon's capsule" and "Tenon's space." It is interesting to note that Tenon was an octogenarian when his major ophthalmological writings were published."
Becker 373, Sourcebook of Ophthalmology 2275, Garrison & Morton 5/1490.
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