GONDRET, Effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps, 1819
GONDRET, Louis François.
Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie.
Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1819.
8vo (200x126 mm), (4)-164 pages. binding : Contemporary quarter calf, gilt flat spine. Binding rubbed. Booklet unbound. Waterstain.
First edition.
Gondret presents among the first explanations of the effect of altitude (altitude sickness) on human physiology. He is the first to describe in this work what we know today as the hyperbaric chamber in order to treat people suffering from acute altitude sickness.
The rest of the volume is exclusively devoted to the study of the influence of simple and scarified suction cups.
Two other works bound together:
- GONDRET, Considerations on the use of fire in medicine, 1819. xvi-94 pages. Second edition.
- HACHETTE || MONGE , Précis des leçons sur le calorique et l'électricité, Paris, A l'Ecole de Sciences et de Belles-Lettres, 1805.
viii-80 pages. First edition.
references: Bert, La Pression barométrique, 1878 (p.229-230).
Price : 300 €