Frontispiece, 2 leaves [half-title, title page], xcviii, 345, [3] pp, 47 pp [Avis, Quaestio Medica], 13 unnumbered plates (facing pp. 39, 40, 65, 71, 73, 86, 90, 94, 109, 123, 128, 282, 289); 1 leaf [title page], vi, 365, [5] pp, 1 unnumbered plate (facing 307). Contemporary full leather, with raised bands on spines and spines richly gilt. Leather repair at top of spine of Vol. I, and at top & bottom of spine in Vol. II. Stain on covers of Vol. II. Ink note on title page of Vol. I. Stain in upper gutter margin of text in Vol. II, extending down 4 lines of text and halfway across the page. It affects the title page of Vol. II, but is most visible from pp. 170-312. There is a lesser stain in the lower gutter margin of some leaves in Vol. I. I am calling the set Good because of the staining, but I suspect most others would call it Very Good. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 4301. "Andry coined the term orthopaedia from the Greek words for 'straight' (orthos) and 'child' (pais) and in doing so named the science of orthopedics. His book was the first monograph on the subject, and the emblematic engraving it contains of a tree with a crooked trunk tied to a straight post has been adopted as a symbol of orthopedics. Andry grasped the crucial principles that the muscles in balance are the molders of the body in childhood and that weakness in a muscle, resulting in a muscle imbalance, can result in the onset of a deformity during growth. He therefore recommended that the offending muscle be subject to a course of exercise, by which deformities could be prevented or cured. His method were simple but ingenious, based on observation and on the principle that deformities that are due to one form of movement or habit can be undone by a movement or habit of the opposite kind. . . . Andry devised balancing and gymnastic exercises and encouraged childhood games. He also used massage, cold applications, and what we now call orthopedic beds. For established deformities, he resorted to the use of mechanical aids. He also believed that deformities in children were caused by ill-fitting or restrictive clothing and by unnatural postures enforced by badly designed children's furniture. He thus paid great attention to the adoption of proper posture, which he regarded as being of the utmost importance" (Grolier, One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine 42). Norman 55. Heirs of Hippocrates 697. Lefanu, Notable Medical Books from the Lilly Library, Indiana University, p. 113. Hagelin, Rare and Important Medical Books in the Library of the Swedish Society of Medicine, p. 111 (citing Brussels: 1743 edition). NOTE about "Suite de l'orthopédie": In the following year, 1742, Andry published a 119-page "Suite de l'orthopédie" in response to a critique of his book in Lettre CCCLXXX in Observations sur les écrits modernes, vol. XXVI, 97-121. That "Suite" is sometimes bound at the end of volume II. However it is not part of the original 1741 edition of Andry's L'orthopédie, so this copy is as the book was originally published and is complete. NOTE ABOUT PHOTOS: ABEBooks allows only five photos. I can send additional photos, upon request, showing the other plates and also staining of the binding (vol. II) and parts of the text.
