Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.

Matière médicale traduite du latin.

Paris, Briasson, 1755.

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350 €

First french edition.
"Professor of medicine, botany, and pharmacology at Frankfurt, Cartheuser wrote widely in the fields of chemistry, botany, pharmacology, pathology, and therapeutics. This work on the fundamentals of the materia medica was first published in 1749 at Frankfurt an der Oder. A popular work, it went through a number of Latin editions (this being the first one published in Venice) and was later translated into French." (Heirs of Hippocrates).

DE MEUVE, Dr.

Dictionnaire pharmaceutique ou Apparat de médecine pharmacie et chymie.

Lyon, Cl. Rey, 1695.

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350 €

Third edition.

Considerable work considered to be the first modern pharmaceutical encyclopedia in French, which just precedes Lemery's Universal Drug Treaty. (cf. Bulletin of the pharmacy history society, n ° 53, dec. 1926).

WHYTT, Robert.

Essai sur les vertus de l'eau de Chaux, pour la guérison de la pierre.

Paris, P. Fr. Didot, 1766.

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150 €

New edition.
Translation in French by Roux of Robert Whytt's work on the use of lime water for the dissolution of bladder stones. The plate shows the instrumentation used to inject lime by natural means.

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René.

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler.

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.

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Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.
Our edition follows the original and corrects the title page which indicated 1779 instead of 1789.

[CONVENTION NATIONALE].

Instruction sur les moyens d'entretenir la salubrité et de purifier l'air des salles dans les hopitaux militaires de la République.

Paris, Imprimerie Guillaume, An II [1794].

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100 €

First edition.
Instruction written by the War Department Health Board and voted by the National Convention.

The engraving shows a stove that is supposed to "keep the air clean in military hospitals".

[ARNAULT DE NOBLEVILLE, Louis Daniel || SALERNE, François].

Le Manuel des Dames de charité, ou formules de médicamens faciles à préparer.

Orléans, N. Lanquement, 1747.

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250 €

First edition.
Arnault de Nobleville (1701-1778) is a doctor who practiced in Orleans. He worked there with François Salerne who co-signed the dedication epistle.
This book is intended for the medicine of the poor, giving simple and inexpensive remedies to achieve. In the preamble there is also a list of simple to use with their prices of the time.
The original edition published in Orleans has become rare.

MANGET, Jean Jacques.

Bibliotheca chirurgica, sive rerum ad artem machaonicam quoquô modô spectantium thesaurus absolutissimus [...].

Genève, Gabriel de Tournes & fils, 1721.

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1400 €

First edition.

Jean-Jacques Manget (1652-1742) was a Genevan doctor and publisher of scientific works.
This book is a compilation of articles, classified in alphabetical order, which deals with the surgical approach to the treatment of diseases. Manget relied on ancient authors and his contemporaries.

[ANONYME].

Le médecin dés-interressé, ou l'on trouvera l'élite de plusieurs remèdes infaillibles, très expérimentez, & a peu de frais.

Paris, Pierre Aubouyn - Pierre Emery - Charles Clouzier, 1695.

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First edition.

This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier.

Mémoires sur les fièvres de mauvais caractère du levant et des antilles, avec un aperçu physique et médical du Sayd, et un essai sur la topographe de Sainte-Lucie dédiés à l'empereur.

Lyon, Reymann, An XII - 1804.

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500 €

Jean-François-Xavier Pugnet (1765-1846) was a French military doctor who distinguished himself during the Egyptian campaign, first at the Rosette hospital and then at Cairo where he was confronted with the plague. He then went to the West Indies to study yellow fever and compare it to Levant fevers.
He compiles his observations from 1802, here the most complete edition plus the part on Saint Lucia.

The folding plate takes up a low relief collected in Egypt in a tomb representing the fertilization of the Earth by the Sun.

VITET, Louis.

Traité de la Sangsue médicinale.

Paris, H. Nicolle, 1809.

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400 €

First posthumous edition.

Lyonnais physician, Louis Vitet (1736-1809) became mayor of Lyon during the revolutionary period. It is his son who publishes this book according to the works left by his father.
Complete treatise on the medicinal leech, which describes its anatomy, physiology and uses in the patient. Supplementary bleeding animal still widely used at the beginning of the 19th century.

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745.

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150 €

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MARTIN, M.

Lettres adressées aux dames de charité de la campagne.

Auxerre, L. Fournier, 1789.

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250 €

Troisième édition.
Rare print in Auxerre of a collection of letters that sent this former apothecary of the Hotel of the royal military school to the "ladies of charity" of his diocese.
The aim was to give season after season advice on the plants to pick and the remedies that are easy to prepare for the ills of the time.

SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas.

Icones oculi humani.

Francfort, Varrentrapp et Wenner, 1804.

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300 €

Remarkable edition for the plates finely engraved by Klauber, Scarpat, Kohl according to Koeck.
First Latin edition translated by Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger. This text appeared for the first time in German, in 1801.

LIPPE, Adolph von.

Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia medica.

Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel, 1915.

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300 €

This work was originally prepared for the use of those attending the Lectures on the Materia Medica, in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and at their request.

It contains the characteristic and most prominent special symptoms of the best proved and most used of our Medicines.

GEORGET, Eienne-Jean.

De la Folie, ou aliénation mentale (Extrait du dictionnaire de médecine).

Paris, Imprimerie de Rignoux, 1823.

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450 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.
Rare offprint of this article's by Etienne-Jean Georget (1795-1828, French psychiatrist°
In this work, published shortly after main work "De la folie", Georget give a precise definition of the term "insanity" by exposing their predispositions, particular characters, manifestations and neurological causes.

GUISLAIN, Joseph.

Leçons orales sur les phrénopathies, ou Traité théorique et pratique des maladies mentales.

Gand, L. Hebbelynck, 1852.

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950 €

First edition.

This book consists of the lessons given at the clinic of the Ghent mental health institutions, by Joseph Guislain (1797-1860), who was one of the pioneering doctors in the treatment of mental illness in Belgium. He worked for a humane treatment of patients and built the first hospice based on modern concepts.

GALL, Franz Josef.

Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnaître les instincts, les penchans, les talens ou les dispositions morales et intellectuelles des hommes et des animaux, par la configuration de leur cerveau et de leur tête.

Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1825.

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380 €

First published in 1819 under the title "Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux", this book is considered a pioneer in the field of the localization of brain functions.

DAVID, Alexandre || GALL || LAVATER || MANUEL CHOLERA-MORBUS.

Le petit Docteur Gall ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la phrénologie d'après les systèmes de Gall et de Spurzheim
[suivi de]
Le petit Lavater français ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie
[suivi de]
Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus.

Paris, L. Passard - Passard - Crochard/Audot Fils, [1857] - [1857] - 1831.

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100 €

First edition for all three books.
Rare copy of the "Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus".

CERISE, L.

Exposé et examen critique du système phrénologique.

Paris, Trinquart, 1836.

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150 €

First edition.

This book deals with phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

LELUT, Louis-Francisque.

Rejet de l'organologie phrénologique de Gall, et de ses successeurs.

Paris, Fortin - Masson et Cie, 1843.

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70 €

First édition.

Louis-Francisque Lélut (1804-1877) was a French doctor known for his research on mental illnesses and phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

DUFOUR, Philibert.

Essai sur l'étude de l'homme considéré sous le double point de vue, de la vie animale et de la vie intellectuelle.

Paris, Isidore Person - A; Jeanthon, 1833.

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120 €

First édition.

LE FRANÇOIS, Alexandre.

Projet de réformation de la médecine, dédié à son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Régent du royaume.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier fils, 1723.

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250 €

This book contains an overview of the practice of medicine in the first half of the 18th century. The author presents his observations on the training of doctors but also on the regulation of medicines, and then possible reforms.

GAGNON, F. A. D.

La recherche de la vérité dans la médecine, et les découvertes qui en ont esté faites par diverses expériences & observations nouvelles.

Paris, Jean de Nully, 1697.

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150 €

First edition.

VOULLONNE, Ignace-Vincent.

Mémoire qui a remporté le Prix au jugement de l'Académie de Dijon le 18 août 1776.

Avignon, Jean-Joseph Niel, 1776.

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90 €

First edition.

HALLER, Albrecht von.

La génération, ou exposition des phénomènes relatifs à cette fonction naturelle; de leur méchanisme, de leurs causes respectives, & des effets immédiats qui en résultent.

Paris, De La Doué, 1774.

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90 €

First edition in French of this book by Haller.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

LAUNAY, Charles Denys de.

Nouveau système sur la génération de l'homme et celle de l'oiseau, où l'on rapporte & où l'on réfute les différentes opinions qui ont paru sur ce sujet.

Paris, Gabriel-François Quillau, 1726.

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250 €

First edition.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

ETTMÜLLER, Michael.

Nouveaux instituts de médecine de Michel Ettmuller, célèbre médecin.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.

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150 €

First edition in French of the treatise on physiology and pathology by Michael Ettmüller (1644-1683).

VAN DER WIEL, Cornelis Stalpart || PLANQUE, Michel.

Observations rares, de médecine, d'anatomie et de chirurgie, [...], auquel on a joint deux dissertations du même auteur; la première, sur la Licorne; & la seconde sur la nourriture du foetus.

Paris, L.-C. d'Houry, 1758.

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450 €

First edition in French.

This book contains essays on teratology (Study of anomalies and monstrosities of living beings.), especially the one on the unicorn.

PHILIP, Alexander P. W.

An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases.

Philadelphie, Edward & Richard Parker, 1818.

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50 €

Alexander P. W. Philip (1770–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du système nerveux ganglionaire et sur leur application à la pathologie.

Paris-Lyon-Montpellier, Germer-Baillière - Ch. Savy Jeune - Sévalle et Castel, 1837.

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90 €

Second enlarged edition.
Jean-Louis Brachet (1789-1858), clinical physician, professor of physiology, and Napoleon's surgeon, is known in the field of neuro-physiology for his research.
This book deals with his physiological research on the lymph node nervous system.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.

Matière médicale traduite du latin.

DE MEUVE, Dr.

Dictionnaire pharmaceutique ou Apparat de médecine pharmacie et chymie.

Third edition. Considerable work considered to be the first modern pharmaceutical encyclopedia in French, which just precedes Lemery's Universal Drug Treaty. (cf. Bulletin of the pharmacy history society, n ° 53, dec. 1926).

WHYTT, Robert.

Essai sur les vertus de l'eau de Chaux, pour la guérison de la pierre.

New edition. Translation in French by Roux of Robert Whytt's work on the use of lime water for the dissolution of bladder stones. The plate shows the instrumentation used to inject lime by natural means.

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René.

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler.

[CONVENTION NATIONALE].

Instruction sur les moyens d'entretenir la salubrité et de purifier l'air des salles dans les hopitaux militaires de la République.

First edition. Instruction written by the War Department Health Board and voted by the National Convention. The engraving shows a stove that is supposed to "keep the air clean in military hospitals".

[ARNAULT DE NOBLEVILLE, Louis Daniel || SALERNE, François].

Le Manuel des Dames de charité, ou formules de médicamens faciles à préparer.

MANGET, Jean Jacques.

Bibliotheca chirurgica, sive rerum ad artem machaonicam quoquô modô spectantium thesaurus absolutissimus [...].

[ANONYME].

Le médecin dés-interressé, ou l'on trouvera l'élite de plusieurs remèdes infaillibles, très expérimentez, & a peu de frais.

First edition.This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier.

Mémoires sur les fièvres de mauvais caractère du levant et des antilles, avec un aperçu physique et médical du Sayd, et un essai sur la topographe de Sainte-Lucie dédiés à l'empereur.

VITET, Louis.

Traité de la Sangsue médicinale.

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

First edition in French. One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop. Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MARTIN, M.

Lettres adressées aux dames de charité de la campagne.

SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas.

Icones oculi humani.

Remarkable edition for the plates finely engraved by Klauber, Scarpat, Kohl according to Koeck. First Latin edition translated by Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger. This text appeared for the first time in German, in 1801.

LIPPE, Adolph von.

Keynotes of the Homoeopathic Materia medica.

This work was originally prepared for the use of those attending the Lectures on the Materia Medica, in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and at their request. It contains the characteristic and most prominent special symptoms of the best proved and most used of our Medicines.

GEORGET, Eienne-Jean.

De la Folie, ou aliénation mentale (Extrait du dictionnaire de médecine).

GUISLAIN, Joseph.

Leçons orales sur les phrénopathies, ou Traité théorique et pratique des maladies mentales.

GALL, Franz Josef.

Sur les fonctions du cerveau et sur celles de chacune de ses parties, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnaître les instincts, les penchans, les talens ou les dispositions morales et intellectuelles des hommes et des animaux, par la configuration de leur cerveau et de leur tête.

First published in 1819 under the title "Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux", this book is considered a pioneer in the field of the localization of brain functions.

DAVID, Alexandre || GALL || LAVATER || MANUEL CHOLERA-MORBUS.

Le petit Docteur Gall ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la phrénologie d'après les systèmes de Gall et de Spurzheim [suivi de] Le petit Lavater français ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie [suivi de] Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus.

First edition for all three books. Rare copy of the "Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus".

CERISE, L.

Exposé et examen critique du système phrénologique.

First edition. This book deals with phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

LELUT, Louis-Francisque.

Rejet de l'organologie phrénologique de Gall, et de ses successeurs.

First édition. Louis-Francisque Lélut (1804-1877) was a French doctor known for his research on mental illnesses and phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

DUFOUR, Philibert.

Essai sur l'étude de l'homme considéré sous le double point de vue, de la vie animale et de la vie intellectuelle.

First édition.

LE FRANÇOIS, Alexandre.

Projet de réformation de la médecine, dédié à son Altesse Royale Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, Régent du royaume.

This book contains an overview of the practice of medicine in the first half of the 18th century. The author presents his observations on the training of doctors but also on the regulation of medicines, and then possible reforms.

GAGNON, F. A. D.

La recherche de la vérité dans la médecine, et les découvertes qui en ont esté faites par diverses expériences & observations nouvelles.

First edition.

VOULLONNE, Ignace-Vincent.

Mémoire qui a remporté le Prix au jugement de l'Académie de Dijon le 18 août 1776.

First edition.

HALLER, Albrecht von.

La génération, ou exposition des phénomènes relatifs à cette fonction naturelle; de leur méchanisme, de leurs causes respectives, & des effets immédiats qui en résultent.

First edition in French of this book by Haller. Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

LAUNAY, Charles Denys de.

Nouveau système sur la génération de l'homme et celle de l'oiseau, où l'on rapporte & où l'on réfute les différentes opinions qui ont paru sur ce sujet.

First edition. Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

ETTMÜLLER, Michael.

Nouveaux instituts de médecine de Michel Ettmuller, célèbre médecin.

First edition in French of the treatise on physiology and pathology by Michael Ettmüller (1644-1683).

VAN DER WIEL, Cornelis Stalpart || PLANQUE, Michel.

Observations rares, de médecine, d'anatomie et de chirurgie, [...], auquel on a joint deux dissertations du même auteur; la première, sur la Licorne; & la seconde sur la nourriture du foetus.

First edition in French. This book contains essays on teratology (Study of anomalies and monstrosities of living beings.), especially the one on the unicorn.

PHILIP, Alexander P. W.

An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases.

Alexander P. W. Philip (1770–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Third edition.

Considerable work considered to be the first modern pharmaceutical encyclopedia in French, which just precedes Lemery's Universal Drug Treaty. (cf. Bulletin of the pharmacy history society, n ° 53, dec. 1926).

New edition.
Translation in French by Roux of Robert Whytt's work on the use of lime water for the dissolution of bladder stones. The plate shows the instrumentation used to inject lime by natural means.

First edition.
Instruction written by the War Department Health Board and voted by the National Convention.

The engraving shows a stove that is supposed to "keep the air clean in military hospitals".

First edition.

This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

Remarkable edition for the plates finely engraved by Klauber, Scarpat, Kohl according to Koeck.
First Latin edition translated by Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger. This text appeared for the first time in German, in 1801.

This work was originally prepared for the use of those attending the Lectures on the Materia Medica, in the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, and at their request.

It contains the characteristic and most prominent special symptoms of the best proved and most used of our Medicines.

Le petit Docteur Gall ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la phrénologie d'après les systèmes de Gall et de Spurzheim
[suivi de]
Le petit Lavater français ou l'art de connaître les hommes par la physionomie
[suivi de]
Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus.

First edition for all three books.
Rare copy of the "Manuel complet préservatif et curatif du choléra-morbus".

First edition.

This book deals with phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

First édition.

Louis-Francisque Lélut (1804-1877) was a French doctor known for his research on mental illnesses and phrenology (theory on the fact that the bumps in a human being's skull reflect his character).

First edition in French of this book by Haller.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

First edition.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

First edition in French.

This book contains essays on teratology (Study of anomalies and monstrosities of living beings.), especially the one on the unicorn.

Second enlarged edition.
Jean-Louis Brachet (1789-1858), clinical physician, professor of physiology, and Napoleon's surgeon, is known in the field of neuro-physiology for his research.
This book deals with his physiological research on the lymph node nervous system.