VIGILIIS VON CREUTZENFELD, Stephan Hieronymus de.

Bibliotheca Chirurgica in qua Res Omnes ad Chirurgiam pertinentes Ordine Alphabetico, ipsi vero Scriptores, quotquot ad Annum usque MDCCLXXIX. Innotuerunt, ad Singulas Materias Ordine Chronologico exhibentur, adjecto ad Libri calcem Auctorum Indice.

xxx, 864 pp.; 1 p.l., 865-1914, [2] pp. Two vols. Large thick 4to, cont. half-sheep & marbled boards (minor wear). Vienna: JT. Trattner, 1781. First edition. "De Vigiliis von Creutzenfeld...issued at Vienna in 1781 an extraordinary two-volume surgical bibliography which ran to some 1,914 pages. The subject arrangement which he adopted was based on a relatively simple and well-thought-out scheme, with adequate cross references, the scheme being indicated at the beginning of the first volume in the subject conspectus. His last main section, 'Vulnera capitis,' gives a masterly survey of the literature bearing on head injuries from Hippocrates down to William Dease's well-known book on the subject published in London in 1776. This section occupies fifty pages of text and is undoubtedly the most complete bibliographical study of the literature of head injury that had been brought together up to that time. All of the main works receive detailed annotation after the style of Haller. If anyone were to compile a history of ideas concerning head injury, de Vigiliis would be an absolutely invaluable source book... "De Vigiliis must have had access to unusual library facilities, for he includes literature from almost every country in Europe and is especially strong in the sphere of English writers such as Percival Pott and William Dease...De Vigiliis' section on the hernia literature runs to fifty-six pages and is particularly helpful in connection with classical writers."­Fulton, The Great Medical Bibliographers, pp. 61-62. Very good set. Lacking the frontispiece portrait in Vol. I as is very often the case. Hirsch, V, p. 756. Petzholdt, p. 592.

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