{"product_id":"from-head-wounds-to-urinary-obstruction-a-rare-spanish-surgical-manual","title":"From head wounds to urinary obstruction: a rare Spanish surgical manual","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eAlonso Romano de Córdoba (fl. 1617–1657).\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eRecopilacion de toda la teorica, y practica de cirugia, muy importante para los professores della ... Ahora contiene de nuevo un tratado de la manera de curar las carnosidades, y callos en la via de la orina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eMadrid, Gregorio Rodríguez, at the expense of Gabriel de León, 1657.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e12mo (152 × 105 mm). 8 leaves, 280 pp. With the woodcut device of the bookseller Gabriel de León on the verso of the title-page. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eContemporary limp vellum, the title manuscript-lettered on the spine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\"\u003e               \u003c\/span\u003eA rare survival of a wide-ranging Spanish surgical handbook, combining practical instruction with a specialised treatise on urethral obstruction. Romano discusses tumours, wounds, ulcers, contusions, fractures, dislocations, hernias, abscesses and other surgical conditions, with guidance on diagnosis, medicines, dressings and operative treatment. His main text concludes with questions and answers addressing the preceding material. Written in Spanish and explicitly intended for practitioners, the compact volume offers a valuable source for studying how surgical knowledge was organised and communicated beyond Latin-language medical scholarship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eOf particular interest is the additional treatise, beginning on p. 221, compiled by the Valencian surgeon Miguel de Leriza on ‘carnosidades’ and ‘callos’ obstructing the urinary passage. Originally published in 1597, Leriza’s text discusses treatment with candelillas, slender medicated bougies, and caustic preparations. It preserves detailed evidence of the instruments, remedies and manual procedures employed in treating urethral obstruction, well before urology became an independent medical speciality. Its inclusion brings together general surgical instruction and a focused account of a condition that attracted considerable attention among sixteenth- and seventeenth-century surgeons.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eFirst published in 1617, Romano’s manual went through a number of seventeenth-century editions, all very rare today, possibly because of their extensive use in daily practice. Later editions were published in 1638, 1657, 1660, 1665, 1673 and 1674. The 1657 edition that we offer here in its contemporary limp-vellum binding is recorded in copies at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and the Biblioteca Nacional de España, but outside Spain copies are very illusive, of any edition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eCondition:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eBinding darkened, soiled and rubbed, with wear to the edges and corners and remnants of ties. A reused printed leaf bearing Spanish commentary on Virgil on the paste-downs. Contents browned throughout, more heavily in places, with scattered spotting and staining, marginal handling marks and occasional creasing. A well-used copy retaining its contemporary binding.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003eReference: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;\"\u003ePalau 617631.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artem Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55119444967767,"sku":null,"price":1400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/9248\/9647\/files\/artem-romano-1657-08-titelpagina-1657.jpg?v=1790156035","url":"https:\/\/artemrarebooks.com\/products\/from-head-wounds-to-urinary-obstruction-a-rare-spanish-surgical-manual","provider":"Artem Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}