DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Ueber das Schielen und die Heilung desselben durch die Operation, Berlin: Albert Förstner, 1842, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding lithographed plates by Carl Resener after Dr. Johann Julius Bühring (small stamp to title), contemporary cloth (spine faded). [GM 5856; Norman 638; Waller 2447; Wellcome II, p. 466]

细节

DIEFFENBACH, Johann Friedrich. Ueber das Schielen und die Heilung desselben durch die Operation, Berlin: Albert Förstner, 1842, 8°, FIRST EDITION, 3 folding lithographed plates by Carl Resener after Dr. Johann Julius Bühring (small stamp to title), contemporary cloth (spine faded). [GM 5856; Norman 638; Waller 2447; Wellcome II, p. 466]

拍品专文

"Dieffenbach's treatise records the first successful attempt to correct strabismus by servering the tendons of the eye muscles, an operation that had been suggested by Louis Stromeyer. Dieffenbach performed 1,200 such operations, and shared with Stromeyer the Institut de France's Monthyon Prize for his pioneering studies of this procedure ...." (Norman)