This work on fractures is perhaps the best of Malgaigne's treatises on operative surgery. It includes his classic discussion of a double vertical fracture of the pelvis.
This textbook contains a series of eighty large engravings, most of which were drawn by Antoine Chazal (1793-1854). They cover virtually every phase of childbirth including pelvic deformities, pelvimetry, transverse presentations, cesarean section,...
An outstanding and popular teacher, Rokitansky was untiring in his efforts to provide clear and accurate descriptions of the various states of disease. He labored for more than a decade to produce this, his last work, an outstanding illustrated...
The present work was translated by Henry Smith (1823-1894) for the Sydenham Society. Smith, surgeon to the Royal General Dispensary in London, remarks in the Translator's Preface that "the first physiologists of our day have judged the discoveries...