FRANCO, Pierre (1500 – 1561)
1500 – 1561
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1556 CE
#3573
Petit traité contenant une des parties principalles de chirurgie, laquelle les chirurgiens hernieres exercent.
Clifford Allbutt considered Franco the best lithotomist of the 16th century. His skill in extracting the stone by the perineal route was of a high order; in 1556 he introduced the operation of suprapubic cystotomy in …
1561 CE
#3574
Traité des hernies... et autres excellentes parties de chirurgie assavior de la pierre, des cataractes des yeux, & autres maladies...
Greatly expanded second edition, including Franco's operations for cataract and urinary calculi. Digital facsimile from BnF Gallica at this link.