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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 : Tahulce neurologicce ad illustrandam historiam anatomi- 

 cam cardiacorum nervorum noni nervorum cererib, glossopharingcei, 

 et pharingai 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 been placed in the bands 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 arteries 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 curf- 

 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 hav- 

 ing enjoyed his correspondence for a great number of years, and at 



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