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Photo VERDUC, Jean Baptiste. 

VERDUC, Jean Baptiste. 

Les Opérations de la chirurgie. Avec une pathologie. 

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1693.
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500 €

First edition.
A complete copy with the continuation of the pathology which is often missing.

Photo GALIEN (Claudius Galenus). 

GALIEN (Claudius Galenus). 

Claudii Galeni Pergameni Introductio in pulsus ad Teuthram. 

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1550.
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Collection of four treatises by Galen published by Guillaume Rouillé:
- Introduction in pulsus ad teuthram, 1550 translated by Martino Gregorio
- De Differentiis febrium libri duo, 1570 translated by Laurentiano Florentino
- De Diebus decretoriis libri tres, 1553 translated by Joanno Guinterio Andernaco
- De Elementis libris duo, 1558 translated by Victore Trincavelio.
Galen (129-210 BC) is considered the last of the great creative physicians of Greco-Roman antiquity and, with Hippocrates, one of the founders of the great basic principles on which Western medicine is based.

Photo LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas. 

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas. 

Traité des sens. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1742.
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Second edition.
Reprint of the first edition (Rouen, 1740).
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) a surgeon specializing in the operation of bladder stones remains famous for his work on the senses. Mechanistic doctor for whom sensations are the result of the body acting on the body (the soul therefore does not come into play), his main contribution remains on the understanding of the functioning of vision.

Photo HEISTER, Lorenz (HEISTERI, Laurentii). 

HEISTER, Lorenz (HEISTERI, Laurentii). 

Institutiones chirurgicae in quibus quidquid ad rem chirurgicam pertinet, opima et novissima ratione pertractatur, atque in tabulis multis aeneis praestantissima ac maxime necessaria instrumenta itemque artificia, sive encheirises praecipuae & vincturae chirurgicae repraesentatur. 

Amsterdam, Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1739.
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Lorenz Heister (1683-1758) was a German anatomist, surgeon and botanist, very well-known at his time.
Among his numerous writings, his best-known work is "Institutiones chirurgicae", a book on surgery that was translated into several languages. It was used extensively in Japan, and was still employed as a standard text at Vienna as late as 1838.

Photo PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier. 

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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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.

Photo SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. 

SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. 

Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux-arts, ou traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humains. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1812.
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Beautifully book illustrated with twenty-two large plates.
Salvage uses several famous classical sculptures for his anatomical subjects.
"The 'Planche d'introduction' and the fifteen plates immediately following it are struck off from two plates so as to bring out the bones in black and the body contours and muscles in red." (Choulant-Frank).

"The effect is striking and the text, engraved along with the plates, was printed in the same manner." (Heirs).

Photo BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor. 

BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor. 

De l'irritation et de la folie, ouvrage dans lequel les rapports du physique et du moral sont établis sur les bases de la médecine physiologique. 

Paris, Melle Delauney, 1828.
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500 €

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Broussais rejects nosography for mental medicine. He think that irritation is the cause of madness.

Photo [MARTIN, Alexandre] Dardanus. 

[MARTIN, Alexandre] Dardanus. 

Traité médico-gastronomique sur les indigestions. 

Paris, Audot, 1828.
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Scarce first edition.
The author "feu dardanus, former apothecary" is represented in color on the frontispiece.
Book attributed to Alexandre Martin dedicated "to the gourmands of all countries" for "the useful and fun library".

Photo MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus. 

Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
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Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.

Photo POTT, Perceval. 

POTT, Perceval. 

Oeuvres chirurgicales de M. Percival Pott. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1777-1792.
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500 €

First edition in French.
Percivall Pott (1714-1788), was an English surgeon specializing in the treatment of hernias. He is notably the first to describe congenital hernias. The major part of these surgical works is moreover devoted to the description and the treatment of the various hernias.
The third and last volume was published fifteen years after the first two, in 1792 by Barrois. The translator wishing to complete the Works after the death of Pott (of which he made a short biography in preliminary).
We find in this last volume the description of the curvature of the spine, which will be called Pott'disease (tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints).

Photo CLOQUET, Jules. 

CLOQUET, Jules. 

Traité de l'Acupuncture. 

Paris, Béchet jeune, 1826.
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500 €

First edition.
Jules Germain Cloquet (1790-1883), well known for his work in anatomy, tried his hand at the practice of alternative medicine at the Saint Louis Hospital with hypnotism and acupuncture.
His treatise on acupuncture is the first French book seriously relating clinical cases from hospital practice.
Cloquet made more than 90 observations with the help of Dantu de Vannes.

Photo HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses. 

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.
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First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

Photo PROST, Pierre Antoine. 

PROST, Pierre Antoine. 

Coup d'oeil physiologique sur la folie. 

Paris, Demonville, [1807].
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Pierre-Antoine Prost (1770-1832) was a surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon, then in Paris. He was one of the first to ask the question of the physiological origin of nervous affections.

Photo WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean. 

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean. 

Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités. 

Paris, Morel le jeune, 1742.
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First french edition published juste after the first latin edition.
The French translation is by Jacques Jean Bruhier who is sometimes credited as the sole author of the book.
Book that will terrify the whole of Europe at the idea that we could be buried still alive and which will come for some to give an explanation to the phenomena of vampirism.
More than that, the exposure of these intermediate cases between life and death opens the way to a new discipline of medicine.

Photo CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran. 

Paris, Progrés Médical & Félix Alcan, 1895.
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First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

Photo LE CLERC, Daniel. 

LE CLERC, Daniel. 

Histoire de la médecine. 

La Haye, Isaac van der Kloot, 1729.
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Important book for the History of Medecine, at the 18th century, by Daniel Le Clerc (1652-1728), who is known as a pioneer in this field.

Photo DAGONET, Henri. 

DAGONET, Henri. 

Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales suivi des considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1862.
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450 €

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Henri Dagonet (1823-1902) was the first head of the psychiatry department at the Hospital Ste Anne. His Elementary Treatise will remain a reference work for generations of psychiatrists and has been republished many times.

Photo BONNET, Amédée. 

BONNET, Amédée. 

Traité des Maladies des Articulations. 

Paris, Bailliere, 1845.
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450 €

First edition.
Amédée Bonnet (1809-1858), surgeon at the Hotel Dieu in Lyon, was one of the pioneers of orthopedic surgery.

Photo DURAND FARDEL, Maxime. 

DURAND FARDEL, Maxime. 

Traité clinique et thérapeutique du diabète. 

Paris, Asselin, 1869.
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450 €

Rare first edition of this study on diabetes.

Photo DUPUYTREN, Guillaume. 

DUPUYTREN, Guillaume. 

Lithotomie. (Thèse de Dupuytren). 

Paris, Crochard, 1812.
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Original edition.
Thesis presented by Guillaume Dupuytren for the competition for the chair of operative medicine. He won the competition and thus became professor of operative medicine at the Hotel Dieu in 1812.
First surgeon of the king under Charles X and Louis-Philippe. He was elected member of the Academy of Sciences in 1825.

He performed and perfected almost all surgical operations. We owe him several new operations in the 19th century, notably the healing of the intestine in strangulated hernias.
Dupuytren leaves his name to the "Fracture of Dupuytren" and to the "disease of Dupuytren".

Bound after the Dupuytren's thesis we find the following theses:

- Jean Baptiste Clerc, Dissertation sur l'hydrocéphale, Paris, Didot, 1816
- Antoine Joseph Dussart, Dissertation sur la Blennorrhée virulente, Paris, Didot, 1817
- Thomas Mouette, Dissertation sur la pleurésie chronique, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Gabriel-Antoine Willon, Dissertation sur les lésions du crane à la suite des coups de feu, Paris, Didot, 1816
- L. Gasté, Considérations sur les anévrismes du coeur, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Marius Paul, Dissertation sur l'hépatite chronique, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Auguste Denéchaud, Considérations sur la nature et le traitement de l'entéro-mésentérite, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Grégoire Dagonet, Dissertation sur l'action immédiate des divers agens thérapeutiques, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Jean-François La Bourdette, Dissertation inaugurale sur la fracture de l'olécrane, Paris, Poncelin, 1803
- Prosper-Jean-Marie Leveque, Dissertation sur l'inflammation chronique de l'estomac, Paris, Didot, 1817
- Henri-Marie-Joseph Desruelles, Dissertation sur la nécroise à la suite des amputations, Paris, Didot, 1814
- P. Pons, Essai sur les sympathies considérées sous le rapport de la médecine, Paris, Didot, 1818
- Nicolas-Mathieu Guinée, Esquisse historique de l'épidémie dysentérique et scorbutique, Paris, Didot, 1816
- Antoine-Alexis Prompt, Considérations sur la marche et le traitement des maladies en général, Paris, Didot, 1816
- Jacques-Casimir Bigot, Dissertation sur la péripneumonie simple, Paris, Didot, 1818.

Photo SCARPA, Antonio. 

SCARPA, Antonio. 

Traité de l'opération de la taille, ou Mémoires anatomiques et chirurgicaux sur les différentes méthodes employées pour pratiquer cette opération, par Ant. Scarpa,. Traduit de l'italien par C.-P. Ollivier (d'Angers),. Avec des additions et un mémoire du traducteur sur la taille bilatérale, contenant l'exposé des diverses recherches faites sur cette nouvelle méthode, les modifications que Béclard y avait apportées.
Relié à la suite :
LEROY d'ETIOLLE, Jean-Jacques-Joseph. Exposé des divers procédés employés jusqu'à ce jour pour guérir de la pierre sans avoir recours à l'opération de la taille. Baillère. 1825. 

Paris, Gabon, 1826.
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First edition in French for the Scarpa, with a dedication of the translator (Ollivier).
First edition for the second work (Leroy).
Two works on the traitment of the renal stones.

Photo VELPEAU, Alfred Armand Louis Marie. 

VELPEAU, Alfred Armand Louis Marie. 

De l'opération du trépan dans les plaies de tête. 

Paris, Baillère, 1834.
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Rare first edition. This book is divided into four parts: history of the use of the drill bit, principles and limits of its use, critical examination of the various existing methods and the possible consequences of this surgery.

Photo TARNIER, Stéphane. 

TARNIER, Stéphane. 

De l’Asepsie et de l’antisepsie en obstétrique. 

Paris, G. Steinheil, 1894.
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First edition.
Stéphane Tarnier is considered the father of modern obstetrics in France. He introduced aseptic and antiseptic practices in delivery rooms, significantly reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. This book compiles his lessons on these revolutionary methods.
Prize copy for the School of Childbirth awarded to Miss Guillory.
Beautiful copy.

Photo QUINTI, Joseph. 

QUINTI, Joseph. 

Les admirables secrets de la médecine chimique qu'il a recueillis avec beaucoup de soin & de travail : lesquels ont été plus d'une fois expérimentez par lui-même en plusieurs infirmitez, & maladies dangereuses. 

A Liège et se vend à Liège, J.F. Broncart, 1711.
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Rare first edition in french
Ferguson says that it's a translation of a collection of secrets by Domenico Auda.
Works divided into four books containing formulas on hermetic medicine, recipes for removing stains, to recognize if the coral, porcelain and pearls are counterfeit, for making varnishes, lacquers, stains, perfumes, ...

The last book is dedicated to the astrology useful and necessary for doctors.

Photo LEROY-D'ETIOLLES, Jean Jacques Joseph. 

LEROY-D'ETIOLLES, Jean Jacques Joseph. 

Histoire de la Lithotritie précédée de réflexions sur la dissolution des calculs urinaires. 

Paris, J-B. Baillière, 1839.
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First edition.
Leroy D'Etiolles is considered to be the inventor of the lithotripter, a surgical instrument whose function is lithotripsy. Lithotripsy is the act of reducing urinary stones directly into the bladder rather than opening the bladder to extract them, which was much less invasive for the patient. This principle is still used today.

The book traces the history of lithotripter, how the instruments were gradually improved by the various doctors of the time. Many diagrams in the text of the instrumentation and the difficulties encountered in their manufacture.

The last part of the book discusses the dissolution of urinary stones by vichy water.

Photo WILLIS, Thomas. 

WILLIS, Thomas. 

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio. 

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1670.
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Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

Photo GEORGET, Eienne-Jean. 

GEORGET, Eienne-Jean. 

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

Paris, Imprimerie de Rignoux, 1823.
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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.

Photo LACHAPELLE, Marie-Louise. 

LACHAPELLE, Marie-Louise. 

Pratique des accouchemens, ou mémoires, et observations choisies, sur les points les plus importans de l'art. 

Paris, J.-B. Baillière, 1821-1825.
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Marie-Louise Lachapelle (1769-1821) was a French midwife who was well known for her work and extensive experience. Through this work and the influence of her teaching, she became one of the founders of modern obstetrics.

First volume signed by Marie-Louis Lachapelle (Vve Lachapelle), second volume signed by Antoine Dugès, nephew and editor of Lachapelle's works, presentation copy to Antoine Dubois, french surgeon.

Photo DIGBY, Kenelm. 

DIGBY, Kenelm. 

Nouveaux secrets experimentez pour conserver la beauté des Dames et pour guérir plusieurs sortes de maladie. 

La Haye, Jean Van Vlaenderen, 1715.
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Receipt and the curious treatise on the powder of sympathy of Digby.

Photo GOURRAIGNE, Hugues. 

GOURRAIGNE, Hugues. 

Pathologiae conspectus, auctore Hugone Gourraigne. 

Nemausi, A.A. Belle, [1743].
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Rare first edition.
Only two copies in public libraries.

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