Don Manuel Louise Antonio de Gimbernat y Arbos - bibliography

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Biography

Spanish anatomist and surgeon, born 1734, Cambrils, in the province of Terragona, Catalania, died November 17, 1816, Madrid.

Bibliography

  • Nuevo metodo de operar en la hernia crural.
    Madrid, Imprenta de la Viuda de Ibarra, 1793.
    Dedicated to King Carlos IV.
    English translation by Thomas Beddoes (1760-1808:
  • A new method of operating for the femoral hernia / Translated from the Spanish of Don Antonio de Gimbernat... ; to which are added by the translator, queries respecting a safer method of performing inoculation, and the treatment of certain fevers. London, J. Johnson, 1795.
    German translation by Bernhard Nathanael Schreger (1766-1725):
  • Neue Methode den Schenkelbruch zu operiren. Aus dem Spanischen mit einem Nachtrage über die Operation des Schenkelbruschs Von Dr. Schreger.
    Nuremberg, Stein, 1817. 141 pages.
    French translation by Gilbert Breschet (1784-1845):
  • Nouvelle méthode d'opérer la hernie crurale étranglée.
    Journal des progrès des sciences médicales, number 4, 1827: 126-136.
    Journal des progrès des sciences médicales, number 5, 1827: 147-157.
  • Disert. sobre el recto u abuso de las suturas. Madrid, 1801.

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