Osservazioni di patologia e clinica chirurgica sui casi piů importanti della clinica.

Pascale, Giovanni, 1859-1936.

Napoli : Bellisario A. & C. (tip.), 1889.

Description : xxiv p., 276 p., [1 l.] p., [5 l.] pl. ; ill.: 6 phots., tbls. ; 23.7 cm.

Photographs : collotypes ; plate 1 reproduces drawings & text for 4 specimens ; plates 2-5 are clinical portraits.

Subject : Surgery — Clinical reports ; statistics.

Notes :

• Author caption: pel Dott. Giovanni Pascale, assistente alla clinica.
• Medical degree: University of Naples Federico II, Naples, 1884.
• Protégé of Antonino D'Antona (1842–1913).
• Director, Surgical Department, Santa Maria della Pace Hospital, Naples, 1896.
• Professor of Clinical Surgery, Clinica chirurgica propedeutica della R. Universitŕ di Napoli, 1898.
• Professor of Surgical Semiotics, 1900.
• Appointed senator of the Italian Realm, 1919.
• Founder and first president, “Pascale Foundation” national oncological institute, Naples, 1933.
• Author caption: Con capitoli originali del prof. D'Antona: cisti da echinococco del fegato - chirurgia renale - toraco - plastica.
• Rare: one copy located by Worldcat.
• Index Medicus: 11309321040, 21206371270 (cases are also identified).

The four clinical portraits represent: pyonephrosis and sepsis in a 25 year-old female (pl. 2) ; an enormous myxosarcoma of the thigh in a 36 year-old male subject (pl. 3) ; complications from spinal tuberculosis, 62 year-old male (pl. 4, shown here) ; traumatic thoracic fistula and empyema, 45 year-old male (pl. 5). The first plate illustrates gross specimens of renal tuberculosis.