Giuseppe Flajani - bibliography

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Biography

Italian surgeon and anatomist, born 1741, near Ascoli; died August 1, 1808.

Bibliography

  • Nuovo metodo di medicare alcune malattie spettanti alla chirurgia.
    Rome: Per Antonio Fulgoni, 1786.
    Contains important surgical observations. Of particular interest are Flajani's new methods of treating fractures of the knee-cap, fractures of the clavicle, and aneurysms of the poplieus. His later work concerning amputation of the joints is here first described.
  • Collezioni di osservazioni e reflessioni di chirurgia.
    Rome, 1798-1803.
  • Osservazioni pratiche sopra l’amputazione degli articoli ed invecchiate lussazioni del braccio, idrocefalo e patereccio.
    Rome, 1791.
    German translation in two volumes, Nürnberg, 1799.

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