[About Philippe Ricord].
As chief of a department of the Hospital of the Venereal Patients from 1832 to 1861, Ricord was a practitioner in vogue well-known in the political and artistic people of Paris as he had be taken medical advice by Gaetano Donizetti in 1845 and Jules de Goncourt in 1869. His fame was brilliant in proportion of his financial success. His personal tools--ivory speculum and gilded tools--are in his own image. The author shows a surgery tool-box carved with Ricord's name and probably manufactured by Charrière about 1865.
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