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P. A. Béclard, Elementi di Anatomia Generale, First Italian Translation, Florence 1835

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Pierre Augustin Béclard's Italian-language anatomical treatise Elementi di anatomia generale, ovvero Descrizione di tutti i generi di organi che compongono il corpo dell'uomo, designated as the first Italian translation. Published in Florence by Tipografia della Speranza in 1835. The volume is bound in marbled paper-covered boards with a leather spine and bears a handwritten name and shelf notation on the front free endpaper.

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Pierre Augustin Béclard (1785-1825) was a French anatomist and surgeon born in Angers. He began his medical education at the Hôtel-Dieu in his native city before continuing his studies in Paris, where he distinguished himself in competitive hospital examinations and developed a career centered on anatomy, teaching, and surgery. Béclard became a prosector at the Paris medical faculty in 1811 and was appointed head of its anatomical work the following year. After receiving his medical doctorate in 1813, he served as a surgeon at the Hôpital de la Pitié and joined the faculty's anatomy teaching staff. He became a member of the Académie de Médecine in 1820 and was named professor of anatomy in 1823. His work united anatomical study with practical surgery. Béclard prepared an expanded edition of Xavier Bichat's general anatomy and published his own Éléments d'anatomie générale in Paris in 1823. The latter examined the tissues and classes of organs composing the human body and continued to circulate in later editions and translations. Several anatomical and medical terms bear his name, reflecting the enduring place of his observations in nineteenth-century anatomical literature.

Author: P. A. Béclard of Angers
Title: Elementi di anatomia generale, ovvero Descrizione di tutti i generi di organi che compongono il corpo dell'uomo
Edition: First Italian translation
Publication: Florence: Tipografia della Speranza, 1835
Language: Italian
Binding: Marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine
Condition: As pictured.