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He has published many little works upon this subject and among 
others a series of letters, addressed to the author of this notice, in 
which he endeavors to prove that the operation of cataract by dis- 
placement, or depression, is preferable to extraction. It is proba- 
ble that if he had had less success in practising upon his favorite 
method, he would have been less eloquent in establishing its superi- 
ority. 
Scarpa was forty five years of age, when he published his work, 
entitled: Tabule neurologice ad illustrandam historiam anatomi- 
cam cardiacorum nervorum noni nervorum cererib, glossopharingat, 
et pharing@i ex octavo cerebri. He designed himself, the models 
which the engraver has copied with a profusion of care and talent, 
such as until that that time, nothing had been seen to compare with 
in point of magnificence, and which has been scarcely equaled in per- 
fection. . The only fault to be found with this magnificent work is, 
that its price renders it inaccessible to common surgeons. 
In 1814, he published in folio his great work upon aneurism; on 
this he lavished the same profusion of engravings; but it was too im- 
portant, too useful, to remain merely an ornament to large libraries ; 
it was translated into several languages, and this eminently classical . 
treatise, reduced to the form of 8vo. has ie placed in the hands of 
every master and every student. 
In 1815, Scarpa, gave the public a ‘memoir or appended it to his 
work upon aneurism, in which we find the details of a series of trials 
of the ligature on the arteties of different animals, suggested by read- 
ing the work of Jones, whose experiments he varied and multiplied. 
This memoir, rich in facts and observations, as important as curi- 
ous, produced a great number of partisans to his method of tying 
the artery in aneurism, which consists in flattening the artery, with a 
cylinder, in a manner to avoid rupturing and bruising it. 
The treatise upon hernia, the second edition of which was print- 
ed in 1819, since it has been translated and reduced to the ordinary 
form, has become the vade mecum of every, surgeon. I would 
likewise speak of a work upon the anatomy and physiology of the 
ear, upon osteogeny ; of numerous polemical memoirs, relative to a 
great number of subjects, but chiefly relative to his dispute with 
Vacca Berlinghieri, who endeavored to establish his Rectos-vesicale 
method in the operation of Lithotomy ; but I should be led further 
than this short announcement will permit. It was proper, after bav- 
ing enjoyed his correspondence for a great number of years, and at 
Vou. —No. I. 
