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Guigonis de Caulhiaco (Guy de Chauliac), Inventarium sive chirurgia magna, volume one: Text, ed. Michael R McVaugh, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 14, I, Leiden, E J Brill, 1997, pp. 486, $216.00 (90-04-10706-1).
Guigonis de Caulhiaco (Guy de Chauliac), Inventarium sive chirurgia magna, volume two: Commentary, prepared by Michael R McVaugh and Margaret S Ogden, Studies in Ancient Medicine, vol. 14, 11, Leiden, Brill, 1997, pp. 438, $178.00 (90-04-10784-3) (set 90-04-10785-1).
"Like an inventory of goods for his heirs". Thus Guy de Chauliac described his book on surgery (completed 1363), which marks the culmination of a medieval tradition of writings on surgery, being the most complete and most scholarly work in the genre. This book arose out of a need to complete the work of Margaret Ogden (d. 1988), who had planned to publish a commentary to the English version of the same text (The cyrurgie...