Esmarch Elephantistischen Formen 1885 ATLAS 29 Plates Elephantiasis Colour 1stNR

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OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE is THE 1885 FIRST EDITION OF ESMARCH AND KULENKAMPFF’S ‘ELEPHANTIASTISCHEN FORMEN,’ ADORNED WITH 29 FULL-PAGE ENGRAVED PLATES OF WHICH 4 ARE HAND-COLOURED, FURTHER ADORNED WITH 3 IN-TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS, printed at Hamburg in atlas folio by Richter, complete in all respects, in very good to excellent condition internally (though the binding is worn), and BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL LATE 19TH CENTURY PUBLISHER’S BLINDSTAMPED CLOTH. The volume is from the library of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, with their library stamps on the title and the plates. � The full title reads as follows: � “Die Elephantiastischen Formen. / Eine umfassende Darstellung der angeborenen und erworbenen Elephantiasis sowie aller verwandten Leiden. / Bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Geb. Medicinalrath Dr. F. Esmarch und Dr. med. D. Kulenkampff / Professor in Kiel. / Praktischer Arzt in Bremen. / Hamburg, / Druck und Verlag von J.F. Richter. / 1885.” � TRULY AN EXTRAORDINARY ATLAS, ADORNED WITH 29 SPECTACULAR PLATES SHOWING THE ENORMOUS SWELLING AND OTHER EFFECTS OF ELEPHANTIASIS. � Per Wikipedia: “Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch� (January 9, 1823 – February 23, 1908) was a� German� surgeon. He developed the� Esmarch bandage� and founded the� Deutscher Samariter-Verein, the predecessor of the� Deutscher Samariter-Bund. Esmarch was born in� Tönning,� Schleswig-Holstein. He studied at� Kiel� and� Göttingen, and in 1846 became� Bernhard Rudolf Konrad von Langenbeck's assistant at the Kiel surgical hospital. He served in the� Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848� as junior surgeon, and this directed his attention to the subject of military� surgery. He was taken prisoner, but afterwards exchanged, and was then appointed as surgeon to a� field hospital. During the truce of 1849 he qualified as� Privatdocent� at Kiel, but on the fresh outbreak of war he returned to the troops and was promoted to the rank of senior surgon. In 1854 Esmarch became director of the surgical clinic at Kiel, and in 1857 head of the general hospital and professor at the� University of Kiel. During the� Schleswig-Holstein War of 1864, Esmarch rendered good service to the field hospitals of� Flensburg,� Sundewitt� and Kiel. In 1866 he was called to� Berlin� as member of the hospital commission, and also to take the superintendence of the surgical work in the hospitals there. When the� Franco-Prussian War� broke out in 1870, he was appointed surgeon-general to the army, and afterwards consulting surgeon at the great military hospital near Berlin. In 1872 Esmarch married Princess� Caroline Christiane Auguste Emilie Henriette Elisabeth� of� Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg� (1833–1917), aunt of Empress� Augusta Viktoria. In 1887 a patent of nobility was conferred on Esmarch. He died at Kiel. � Esmarch was one of the greatest authorities on hospital management and military surgery. His� Handbuch der kriegschirurgischen Technik� was written for a prize offered by the empress Augusta, on the occasion of the Vienna Exhibition of 1877, for the best handbook for the battlefield of surgical appliances and operations. This book is illustrated by admirable diagrams, showing the different methods of bandaging and dressing, as well as the surgical operations as they occur on the battlefield. Esmarch himself invented an apparatus, which bears his name, for keeping a limb nearly bloodless during� amputation. No part of Esmarch's work is more widely known than that which deals with� First Aid, his� First Aid on the Battlefield� and� First Aid to the Injured� being popular manuals on the subject. The latter is the substance of a course of lectures delivered by him in 1881 to a� SamaritanSchool, the first of the kind in Germany, founded by Esmarch in 1881, in imitation of the� St John Ambulance� classes which had been organized in England in 1878. These lectures were very generally adopted as a manual for first aid students, edition after edition having been called for, and they have been translated into numerous l... read more

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