An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

15961 entries, 13944 authors and 1935 subjects. Updated: March 22, 2024

MALGAIGNE, Joseph François

6 entries
  • 5591

Manuel de médecine opératoire.

Paris: Germer Baillière, 1834.

Malgaigne was a brilliant lecturer, notable also as a historian of medieval surgery. His Manuel was an important work on operative surgery, and was translated into English, German, Italian, and Arabic.



Subjects: SURGERY: General
  • 5594

Traité d’anatomie chirurgicale et de chirurgie expérimentale. 2 vols.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1838.


Subjects: SURGERY: General
  • 59

Oeuvres complètes d’Ambroise Paré revues et collationnées sur toutes les éditions, avec les variantes; ornées de 217 planches et du portrait de l'auteur; accompagnées de notes historiques et critiques et précédées d'une introduction sur l'origine et les progrès de la chirurgie en occident du sixième au seizième siècle, et sur la vie et les ouvrages d'Ambroise Paré. Par J.-F. Malgaigne. 3 vols.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 18401841.

The best edition of Paré’s works, edited by Malgaigne. An English translation of Pare's Oeuvres by Thomas Johnson appeared as early as 1634. See also No. 5565. Janet Doe published A bibliography of the works of Ambroise Paré, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1943 and F. R. Packard published Life and times of Ambroise Paré.,. New York, 1921. Malgaigne's comprehensive historical introduction to his edition was translated by Wallace Hamby as Surgery and Ambroise Paré, Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.



Subjects: BIOGRAPHY (Reference Works) › Biographies of Individuals, Collected Works: Opera Omnia, SURGERY: General
  • 5790

Histoire de la chirurgie en Occident depuis de VIe jusqu’au XVIe siècle, et histoire de la vie et des travaux d’Ambroise Parè.

Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1840.

Billings considered Malgaigne “the greatest surgical historian and critic the world has ever seen”; Leonardo (No. 5812) says that his greatest contribution to surgery was his unique manner of evaluating surgical techniques and innovations by which the then new methods of statistical computation were conjoined with actual surgical experiments. This work was also published in vol. 1 of No. 59. English translation by W. Hamby, Norman, Oklahoma, 1965. Digital facsimile of the 1840 edition from the Internet Archive at this link.



Subjects: SURGERY: General › History of Surgery
  • 5746

Nouvelle méthode pour l’opération du bec-de-lièvre.

J. Chir. (Malgaigne), 2, 1-6, 1844.

Malgaigne’s two-flap method for repair of cleft lip. English translation by R. Ivy in No. 5768.2.



Subjects: PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY › Cleft Lip & Palate
  • 4417

Traité des fractures et des luxations. 2 vols. and atlas.

Paris: L'Auteur & J.-B. Baillière, 18471855.

This was Malgaigne’s greatest work. His description of bilateral vertical fracture of the pelvis (“Malgaigne’s fracture”) is in vol. 1, pp. 650-56. English translation of the first volume on fractures, Philadelphia, 1859. The second volume on luxations has not been translated.



Subjects: ORTHOPEDICS › Orthopedic Surgery & Treatments › Fractures & Dislocations