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Do you know the quote from Georges Canguilhem "Medicine is an art at the crossroads of several Sciences"?
This is the history taught by our rare books on medicine, surgery and pharmacy: first empirical then experimental, the art of healing has been nourished by scientific progress over the centuries.
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BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

Bruxelles, Méline Cans et Cie, [1854].

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2000 €

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.
The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.
This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée.

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.

Paris, Labe, 1856.

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3500 €

First collective edition, first published in several installments over a period of 12 years.
Cazenave issues 60 illustrations of skin diseases.
The illustrations are consistently true-to-life in coloring and drawing style.
Goldschmid considers the large Cazenave one of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works.

CHAILLOU, Jacques.

Recherches de l'origine et du mouvement du sang, du cœur, et de ses vaisseaux.

Paris, Jean Couterot, 1675.

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800 €

First edition.
Jacques Chaillou, a physician from Angers, was one of the first to introduce Harvey's discoveries on blood circulation in France. Jacques Chaillou began his medical studies in Angers in the 1650s, a time when medical discoveries abounded: in 1628, William Harvey published his Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in animalibus in Frankfurt, often considered the first work to accurately describe blood circulation. It was in this context that Jacques Chaillou, before obtaining his doctorate, went to Paris and then Bordeaux to learn about the new discoveries, where he became a professor in 1663. He returned some time later to settle in Angers. In 1664, he published his first treatise on the question of sanguinification, which is reproduced here at the beginning of our edition, and he continued his work on blood, which he described in his Recherches.

DUCHENNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions.

Paris, Baillière, 1876.

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18000 €

Rare copy of the deluxe edition of the second edition with the atlas.
It's the first medical book illustrated with photographs of living subjects.
The celebrated work by Duchenne de Boulogne on facial expressions induced by electrification.
Duchenne de Boulogne’s research was intended both for anatomists and scientists (Darwin would later use Duchenne’s findings in his The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals) and for artists, who, as he said, “have not always been able to find the fundamental lines” of an expressive face.
Using his electrodes and induction coil, Duchenne assigned the precise role of each facial muscle in animating the human face.
He thus aimed to “make known, through electro-physiological analysis and with the help of photography, the art of accurately painting the expressive lines of the human face—a kind of orthography of physiognomy in motion” (from the preface).

A copy from the deluxe edition, issued by the publisher, accompanied by its atlas; the regular edition contained only the frontispiece and the nine plates in the text volume.
Our copy is complete with its atlas of 82 additional plates (the last eleven "aesthetic" plates are often missing).

The atlas reproduces the original photographs, whose portraits had been extracted to create the nine synoptic plates, now printed in large format on albumen paper and mounted.
The electrically induced emotions of the six models literally leap off the page.

The first series of experimental photographs (plates 3–73), featuring an old cobbler with a wrinkled face, was deemed too coarse when Duchenne first presented it. He was persuaded to create a second series (plates 74–84) showing young women in various poses—ecstatic to imitate Saint Teresa or cruel to mimic Lady Macbeth.
“Striving to satisfy those with a sense of beauty, and wishing to please while instructing, I have undertaken some new electrophysiological studies in which, as far as possible, I hope to meet the principal requirements of aesthetics: beauty of form, combined with the truth of facial expression, attitude, and gesture.” (p. 133)
He called this part of his work the aesthetic section.
Perhaps unconvinced of its scientific value, he did not always distribute these 11 “aesthetic” photographs with the atlas; for example, the copies sent to Darwin and Charcot stop at plate 73.
The publisher himself only anounced on the title page 74 plates. Copies with plates 74 to 84 are rare.

Duchenne stands at the crossroads of three recent scientific revolutions (electrical induction, physiology, and photography), yet here he has composed one of the true photographic masterpieces of the 19th century.

FIENUS, Thomas [FEYENS].

De cauteriis libri quinque.

Louvain, Ioan. Baptistam Zangrium, 1598.

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750 €

First edition.
This medical treatise by Thomas Fienus (Fyens or Feyens) is devoted to the use of cautery in medicine. It details the different cauterization techniques, their therapeutic indications and the precautions to be taken, reflecting the medical practices of the late 16th century. Fienus was a professor of medicine at the University of Louvain, recognized for his contributions to the medicine of his time.
A very complete copy of the two plates representing the cauterization instruments.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

Paris, Nyon l'ainé, 1781.

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1000 €

First french edition.
Fontana relates numerous experiments in which he injects venoms and poisons into animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, etc.). The majority of the work is devoted to a systematic study of viper venom but it also addresses plant poisons, such as Ticunas (probably Curare) reported on poisoned arrows from the Amazon. He is thus one of the first to approach toxicology experimentally.

Good copy bound in contemporary full calf.

[GAUTIER-D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien].

Hermaphrodite. Two colour-printed mezzotint plates.

[Paris], s.n., [1749].

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8000 €

Set of two colour-printed mezzotint depicting a hermaphrodite. Among one of the most spectacular prints in Gautier d'Agoty's work.

The two plates (1. side view, 2. front view) were originally intended to accompany a one-page booklet entitled: "Hermaphrodite. Dissertation au sujet de la fameuse hermaphrodite qui a paru aux yeux du public depuis environ trois mois, faite par le sieur Mertrud, chirurgien du Roi," Paris, Berryer éditeur, 1749.

These two large color engraved plates depict the sexual organs of the hermaphrodite Michel Anne Drouart, whose characteristics, examined by various scholars, were the subject of much controversy in Paris, then in England and Italy, where Drouart made several tours: "The subject is alive, aged 16... His father and mother raised him as a girl."

The second plate, not mentioned by the bibliographers, is extremely rare. It is absent from copies of the BIUS, and major Anglo-Saxon specialist libraries. (A copy can be found in Sweden at the Hagströmer Library. An other one sold by Christies, Paris, 2016).

[MANUSCRIT].

Explication des plantes usuelles.

s.l., s.n., [1714].

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1300 €

Handwritten botany course focusing on "common plants", plants that can be used in medicine.
This course lists 486 plants, each with its Latin binomial name and its therapeutic use.
The plants seem to follow an order whose logic is not explained in the short introduction: "The large number of plants that I will have the honor of discussing with you during the short time that this course will last does not allow me to stop here for a long preface where I could explain to you in general how these same plants act, whether they are considered purgatives or simply as alteratives, [...] I propose to follow the order that we will follow in the demonstrations so that at the same time as you learn to know these same plants, you enter into the knowledge of their virtues."
The Latin names refer to the catalogues of Bauhin (C.B.) and Tournefort (inst. r. h.) which suggests that this course was dictated before the penetration of Linnaeus' classification in France, i.e. before the 1760s.
The structure of this course differs from the known courses on "Usual Plants", as dictated by Chomel and Jussieu.

We find, bound below, a manuscript by the same hand:
"Observations on bone diseases explained and demonstrated by Mr Arnaud In the amphitheater of the Jardin du Roy on June 13, 1714" 42 pages.

This suggests that both courses were taken at the Jardin du Roi or Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants (the future Museum of Natural History from 1793), which at the beginning of the 18th century was a major center for teaching medicine and surgery. It is known that at that time both Antoine Jussieu and Sébastien Vaillant were teaching botany there.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

s.l., s.n., [v.1750].

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2500 €

Original manuscript in French.
This anonymous manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684 -1766), the holder of the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
The teaching of the Montpellier doctor was very successful. Astruc dictated his courses and on several occasions these texts were published without the author's name and, poorly copied, distorted the thinking of the learned doctor. I
t was only at the end of his life that Astruc considered it necessary to write down his courses to avoid forgeries.
However, his teaching on children's diseases was never published. Only a "pirate" edition had appeared in English in 1746.
Our course reproduces the structure of the few manuscript copies that we know of, notably that of the Kottek manuscript of 1747, which had been the subject of a modern facsimile (Stalkine, 1980).
However, we will note some differences in the text; for example, in our manuscript, Astruc proposes the end of the first age of childhood at two and a half years (instead of three and a half years in the Kottek manuscript).

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

[Nancy], [Buc'Hoz], [1762-1770].

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7000 €

Original manuscript of an unpublished botanical treatise by a learned scholar from Nantes.
It presents botanical concepts as well as the classifications of Linnaeus and Tournefort. This manuscript, nearly 200 pages long, is written on the verso of the plates from Buc'hoz’s Flore Lorraine.
All plates are also annotated with details on plant names, their classification according to Linnaeus and Tournefort, and their medicinal uses—together forming a true pharmacopoeia.
These 187 plates were intended to illustrate Buc'hoz’s Traité historique des plantes qui croissent dans la Lorraine et les Trois-Évêchés, published in ten octavo volumes between 1762 and 1770. The plates, originally issued separately in installments and designed to be folded and bound in octavo, are gathered here in a single folio volume.
Buc'hoz, known for the beauty of his plates, had solicited financial support from fellow countrymen and botany enthusiasts for the production of these engravings. Thus, at the bottom of almost every plate, one finds the coat of arms and name of the sponsor who funded it.
Maurice Mahot, the author of this manuscript, sponsored plate 152.
While biographical information on Maurice Mahot “the elder” (1745–1810), a royal counselor, civil and criminal judge at the présidial, alderman (1777), and deputy mayor of Nantes (1779), offers little indication of an interest in natural sciences and botany, the same cannot be said of his son, Maurice Mahot “the younger” (1774–1842), a doctor of medicine and scholar who published several books on medicine and lexicography.
The annotations by the son—a physician—on the plates funded by the father—a botany enthusiast—explain the numerous pharmaceutical and medical recipes found in the work.
Another collector has left his name on the title page: Silas Boucher de la Ville Jossy, a member of a prominent Nantes family in the mid-19th century.
A fascinating manuscript, still largely unexplored, of exceptional character, both for the beauty of its annotated plates and for its content, which intertwines botanical classification and pharmacopoeia.

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

Londres, Raphael Smith, 1704.

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1500 €

First edition.
Richard Mead (1673-1754), a physician and friend of Isaac Newton, attempts in this book to demonstrate the influence of gravitational forces on human health. Mesmer drew heavily on this book to write his doctoral thesis in 1766 (On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body). The term "animal gravitation," taken from Mead, was later changed by Mesmer to "animal magnetism.".

PETIT, Pierre.

De lacrymis libri tres.

Paris, Claudium Cramoisy, 1661.

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600 €

First edition.
Pierre Petit (1617-1687) was a 17th-century Parisian physician and scholar. In De lacrymis libri tres, he offers a comprehensive study of tears, addressing their physiological nature, causes, and emotional and spiritual significance. The work is structured into three books, each exploring different aspects of tears, from their anatomical origin to their role in expressions of pain, joy, or devotion.
Questions treated by Petitus include why ‘good’ (brave) men are prone to weeping, why women weep more than men and whether animals are also able to weep.

SANDIFORT, Edward.

Tabulae intestini duodeni.

Leyde, Eyk et Vygh, 1780.

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First edition.
The most valuable monograph on the duodenum.

VACHER, Gilles.

Dissertation sur le cancer des mamelles, ou sans recourir à aucune hipotése, on donne une véritable idée de sa nature, de ses différences, de ses signes & de ses causes, avec la Méthode de le traiter fondée sur plusieurs faits de Pratique.

Charmet, A Bruxelles & se vend à Besançon, 1740.

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2000 €

First edition.
The first and only edition, a rare find, of one of the oldest monographs on breast cancer.
The author analyzes the causes of breast cancer, including "a soft and idle life" that is particularly common among nuns, and the indecency of contemporary clothing, which no longer protects breasts from repeated accidents that can cause cancer.

ABANO, Pierre (d') || PARACELSE.

Traicté des venins.

Lyon, Jean Huguetan, 1593.

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First publication in French of the treatise De Venenis eorumque remediis liber attributed to Peter of Abano (or Petrus de Abano), a famous Italian physician and philosopher of the 13th century.
It contains short descriptions of various poisons and venoms, more or less strange: hemlock, mandrake, spider bite, cat brain, deer tail... As well as the means of treating them, starting with the use of the Bezoar, which is the subject of a dedicated chapter.

Lazare Boet, the translator, adds for the first time in French, Paracelsus' treatise on the virtues and marvelous properties of worms, serpents, spiders, toads, and dunces.

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

s.l., s.n., [v.1850].

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900 €

Huge Atlas only of this Anatomy.

The 20 lithographed plates, represents the entire human body and its organs in half size.

This anonymous edition is a probably Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

ENAUX, Joseph || CHAUSSIER, François.

Méthode de traiter les morsures des animaux enragés et de la vipère.

Dijon, A.M. Defay, 1785.

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150 €

First edition.
This work was intended to be distributed to priests and municipal trustees in order to disseminate in the countryside the means to combat the indicated accidents.

DUMOULIN, Nicolas.

Cours de Thérapeutique.

[Gand], s.n., [v. 1869].

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400 €

Course on Therapeutic Pharmacology given by Nicolas Dumoulin during the years 1868-1869 at the University of Ghent. Nicolas Du Moulin (1827-1890) was a Belgian physician. In 1857, he was appointed to lecture in pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Ghent (Faculty of Medicine). In 1870, he exchanged his pharmacology courses for internal medicine courses. The writer, Cyrille Van Cauwenberghe, left his signature at the head of the book. The course details the different formulations of medications and their therapeutic uses. Noteworthy is a long chapter on rye ergot, used as an abortive substance.

DUMOULIN, Nicolas.

Cours de Pharmacologie.

[Gand], s.n., 1868-1869.

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400 €

Pharmacology course given by N. Dumoulin during the years 1868-1869, possibly at the University of Ghent. The manuscript is divided into 11 numbered notebooks on lined paper that were bound together. The writer, Cyrille Van Cauwenberghe, left his signature at the beginning and end of the notebooks. The teaching details the different types of medications, their methods of administration, with sometimes advanced aspects of pharmacodynamics and chemistry.

[MANUSCRIT].

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet.

s.l., s.n., [1750].

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200 €

Handwritten copy of Volume II of Madame Fouquet's "Collection of Domestic Remedies," one of the most famous domestic medicine manuals of the 18th century.
It contains various recipes that immerse us in popular pharmacopoeia under the Ancien Régime.

A note on the last page: "Ad usum Adriani Lenglé 1816".

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Histoire des maladies du bas ventre.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1740].

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1000 €

Original manuscript in French.
This manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), who held the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
This teaching on abdominal diseases, from hiccups to hemorrhoids, was never published by Astruc. However, several manuscript copies are known under the title Traité des Maladies du bas ventre.
The medical content of our manuscript is identical to the digitized copies of the BIU Santé (Ms 2116) and the Collège de France (XV 8° 375). Most of the chapter headings are similar, although there are some differences in the structure (some chapters are grouped together, others are separated).
Finally, our copy extends to the question of hemorrhoids, which is absent from the Ms2116 manuscript (present in that of the Collège de France), but omits the question of intestinal worms, which are usually found in this course (present in both aforementioned manuscripts).
On the front flyleaf, the following handwritten ex libris is found: "hic liber attinet ad me Lagilardo" (or Lagilardie?).

TANUDE.

Traité d'anatomie, d'ostéologie et de miologie, nécessaire au dessin : débarrassé des choses inutiles a la peinture pour en facilitier l'étude et faire connaitre clairement les facultés des os et des muscles, et l'attache des muscles sur les os, ce qui se trouve expliqué par la table et les lettres de renvoi, marqué conformement sur chaque figures vuës de différents côtés / par Tanude, anatomiste, et dessiné par Naudet.

Paris, Jean, [v.1800].

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600 €

First edition.
Anatomy treatise for artists illustrated with 12 lithographs by Mademoiselle Papaveine after Naudet.
The author's name appears in another work as 'Tanude, chirurgien-anatomiste de Montpellier.' The letters of the name being the same as in 'Naudet', 'Tanude' may be a pseudonym for a member of the Naudet family of Montpellier and possibly for the designer.

LEURET, François || GRATIOLET, Louis Pierre.

Anatomie comparée du système nerveux - Atlas.

Paris, J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1839-1857.

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Scarce first edition. The Atlas only.

DESCARTES, René.

Les traitez de l'Homme et de la formation du foetus, composez par Mr. Descartes, & mis au jour depuis sa mort, par Mr. Clerselier.
Avec les remarques de Louys de La Forge.

Paris [Amsterdam], Guillaume le Jeûne [Daniel Elzevier], 1680.

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1300 €

Third edition in french, quite rare and printed by Daniel Elzevier (Berhman sup.77)

Descartes considered the human body to be a material machine, directed by a rational soul.
He conceived its functioning based solely on the laws of mechanics, without incorporating metaphysical principles that could not be verified by experiment.
Nearly four centuries later, in the era of transhumanism, this "Traité de l'Homme" has aroused renewed interest in the fields of neuroscience and cognitive science.

BRUGNATELLI, Luigi-Vincenzo.

Pharmacopée générale à l'usage des pharmaciens et des médecins modernes, ou dictionnaire des préparations pharmaceutico-médicales simples et composées les plus usités de nos jours, suivant les nouvelles théories chimiques et médicales.

Paris, D.Colas, 1811.

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200 €

First french edition.

MATTIOLI, Per André.

Les commentaires de M. P. André Matthiolus, médecin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen, de la matière médecinale.

Lyon, Claude Prost, 1655.

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1200 €

Latest revised and corrected edition, expanded.
Translation from Latin into French by Antoine du Pinet.
The work comments on the six books of Dioscorides on medicinal materials, with additions on simple remedies, oils, distillations and the treatment of various diseases. Our edition is illustrated with a full-page portrait of the author and numerous small woodcuts in the text representing a large number of carefully engraved plants, as well as some crustaceans, fish, shellfish, insects, animals, scenes of country life. In fine, Brief discourse on the distillation of water with figures showing distillation apparatus. Mattioli, in addition to his work to match ancient botanical descriptions with contemporary botany, describes more than 100 new plants and notably one of the first European varieties of tomato.

FICHET DE FLÉCHY, Philippe.

Observations sur différens cas singuliers, relatifs à la médecine-pratique.

Paris, Michel Lambert, 1761.

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60 €

First edition.
A compilation of rare medical and surgical observations, including cases of venereal disease and issues related to childbirth. Dr. Fichet de Fléchy, a renowned military physician, also offers practical advice for medical and surgical students.

FAISSOLE, Jean || CHAMPEAUX, Claude.

Expériences et observations sur la cause de la mort des noyés.

Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1768.

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200 €

First edition.
Medical observations on the cases of drowned people, which takes as its starting point the case of Claudine Rouge, a young woman whose body was pulled from the Rhône and examined by Faisolle and Champeaux.

CAUFAPE, Anicet.

Nouvelle explication des fièvres et de la gangrène.

Avignon, Pierre Offray, 1687.

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200 €

First edition.
A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.

HELVETIUS, Jean Claude Adrien.

Traité des maladies les plus fréquentes, et des remèdes propres à les guérir.

Paris, Le Mercier, 1727.

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120 €

A classic 18th-century medical treatise written by Helvétius, a renowned physician and inspector general of hospitals in Flanders. The work offers a practical and accessible approach to treating common illnesses with remedies validated by contemporary medical experience.

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All our Medicine and Pharmacy rarebooks

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée.

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.

CHAILLOU, Jacques.

Recherches de l'origine et du mouvement du sang, du cœur, et de ses vaisseaux.

DUCHENNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions.

FIENUS, Thomas [FEYENS].

De cauteriis libri quinque.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

[GAUTIER-D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien].

Hermaphrodite. Two colour-printed mezzotint plates.

[MANUSCRIT].

Explication des plantes usuelles.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

PETIT, Pierre.

De lacrymis libri tres.

SANDIFORT, Edward.

Tabulae intestini duodeni.

First edition.The most valuable monograph on the duodenum.

VACHER, Gilles.

Dissertation sur le cancer des mamelles, ou sans recourir à aucune hipotése, on donne une véritable idée de sa nature, de ses différences, de ses signes & de ses causes, avec la Méthode de le traiter fondée sur plusieurs faits de Pratique.

ABANO, Pierre (d') || PARACELSE.

Traicté des venins.

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

Huge Atlas only of this Anatomy.The 20 lithographed plates, represents the entire human body and its organs in half size.This anonymous edition is a probably Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

ENAUX, Joseph || CHAUSSIER, François.

Méthode de traiter les morsures des animaux enragés et de la vipère.

First edition.This work was intended to be distributed to priests and municipal trustees in order to disseminate in the countryside the means to combat the indicated accidents.

DUMOULIN, Nicolas.

Cours de Thérapeutique.

DUMOULIN, Nicolas.

Cours de Pharmacologie.

[MANUSCRIT].

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Histoire des maladies du bas ventre.

TANUDE.

LEURET, François || GRATIOLET, Louis Pierre.

Anatomie comparée du système nerveux - Atlas.

Scarce first edition. The Atlas only.

DESCARTES, René.

Les traitez de l'Homme et de la formation du foetus, composez par Mr. Descartes, & mis au jour depuis sa mort, par Mr. Clerselier. Avec les remarques de Louys de La Forge.

BRUGNATELLI, Luigi-Vincenzo.

Pharmacopée générale à l'usage des pharmaciens et des médecins modernes, ou dictionnaire des préparations pharmaceutico-médicales simples et composées les plus usités de nos jours, suivant les nouvelles théories chimiques et médicales.

First french edition.

MATTIOLI, Per André.

Les commentaires de M. P. André Matthiolus, médecin senois, sur les six livres de Pedacius Dioscoride Anazarbeen, de la matière médecinale.

FICHET DE FLÉCHY, Philippe.

Observations sur différens cas singuliers, relatifs à la médecine-pratique.

First edition.A compilation of rare medical and surgical observations, including cases of venereal disease and issues related to childbirth. Dr. Fichet de Fléchy, a renowned military physician, also offers practical advice for medical and surgical students.

FAISSOLE, Jean || CHAMPEAUX, Claude.

Expériences et observations sur la cause de la mort des noyés.

First edition.Medical observations on the cases of drowned people, which takes as its starting point the case of Claudine Rouge, a young woman whose body was pulled from the Rhône and examined by Faisolle and Champeaux.

CAUFAPE, Anicet.

Nouvelle explication des fièvres et de la gangrène.

First edition.A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.

HELVETIUS, Jean Claude Adrien.

Traité des maladies les plus fréquentes, et des remèdes propres à les guérir.

A classic 18th-century medical treatise written by Helvétius, a renowned physician and inspector general of hospitals in Flanders. The work offers a practical and accessible approach to treating common illnesses with remedies validated by contemporary medical experience.

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.
The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.
This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

First edition.
The most valuable monograph on the duodenum.

Huge Atlas only of this Anatomy.

The 20 lithographed plates, represents the entire human body and its organs in half size.

This anonymous edition is a probably Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

First edition.
This work was intended to be distributed to priests and municipal trustees in order to disseminate in the countryside the means to combat the indicated accidents.

Les traitez de l'Homme et de la formation du foetus, composez par Mr. Descartes, & mis au jour depuis sa mort, par Mr. Clerselier.
Avec les remarques de Louys de La Forge.

First edition.
A compilation of rare medical and surgical observations, including cases of venereal disease and issues related to childbirth. Dr. Fichet de Fléchy, a renowned military physician, also offers practical advice for medical and surgical students.

First edition.
Medical observations on the cases of drowned people, which takes as its starting point the case of Claudine Rouge, a young woman whose body was pulled from the Rhône and examined by Faisolle and Champeaux.

First edition.
A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.