Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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BOUILLET, Jean.

Les éléments de la médecine-pratique tirés des écrits d'hippocrate et de quelques autres médecins anciens et modernes.

Bésiers, François Barbut, 1744.

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450 €

First edition.

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.

[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.

LAZERME, Jacques.

Tractatus de morbis internis capitis.

Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1748.

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120 €

First edition of this work on neurological diseases.

SYDENHAM, Thomas.

Thomae Sydenham med. doct. ac practici Londinensis Celeberrimi Opera Medica.

Genève, Fratres de Tournes, 1749.

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250 €

This compilation of Sydenham's work notably contains two important chapters on smallpox epidemics at the end of the 17th century.

As always in this edition, is linked to the work of Sydenham, the two treatises on arthritis by Guillaume MUSGRAVE: De arthritide symptomatica dissertatio & De arthritide anomala.
Which are the first treatises devoted to arthritis.

LIEUTAUD, Joseph.

Elementa Physiologiae.

Amsterdam, De Tournes, 1749.

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3500 €

Important first edition.
Lieutaud first note here the white cells ("The globuli albicantes" p. 85), more than twenty years (1774) before the major work from William Hewson on the lymphatic system and first described the lymphocyte.

BOERHAAVE, Herman.

Praelectiones academicae de lue venerea.

Franequerae, Jacob Brouwer, 1751.

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120 €

The academic lectures about venereal disease of the famous Boerhaave.

WINSLOW, Jacque Benigne.

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

Amsterdam, Emanuel Tourneisen, 1753.

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350 €

One of the best seller of anatomy education in the 18th century.

NUGENT, Christophe || ALSTON, Charles.

Essai sur l'hydrophobie, suivi d'une Dissertation sur la chaux-vive & sur l'eau de chaux.

Paris, la Veuve Cavelier, & Fils, 1754.

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180 €

First edition in French.

The first book deals with rabies hydrophobia, which is one of the symptoms of the terminal phase of rabies.
The second is the treaty on limewater and quicklime by Charles Alston (1685-1760), who was physician, botanist, and professor at the Royal College of Medicine in Edinburgh.
A very good copy.

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).

LAZERME, Jacobi.

Curationes morborum.

Montpellier, Rigaud, 1755.

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120 €

HALLER, Albrecht.

Disputationes Chirurgicae selectae.

Lausanne, Marci-Michael Bousquet, 1755-1756.

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700 €

First edition.
Haller, the last universal genius of the Lumières, left an abundant and very broad work. Considered the father of modern physiology, he also contributed to the development of anatomy and surgery, of which he was chair in Gottingen until 1753.
A remarkable work for all 50 engraved plates offering striking scenes of surgery.

PRINGLE, John.

Observations sur les maladies des armées, dans les camps et dans les garnisons, avec un traité sur les substances septiques et anti-septiques.

Paris, Ganeau, 1755-1765.

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250 €

First french edition.

[BERTRAND, Bernard Nicolas].

Elémens de physiologie composés en faveur de ceux qui commencent à étudier en médecine.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1756.

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150 €

First edition.

A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

WHYTT, Robert.

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

Paris, Vincent, 1757.

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250 €

First edition in French.

Book on the use of limewater for the treatment of urinary bladder stones.
First published, successfully, in the medical journal "Edinburgh Medical Essays" with the title "On the Virtues of Lime-Water in the Cure of Stone" in 1743.

BOURDET, Etienne.

Recherches et Observations sur toutes les parties de l'Art du Dentiste.

Paris, Jean Thomas Herissant, 1757.

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1500 €

First edition.

[MAZEAS, Guillaume].

La pharmacopée des pauvres, accompagnée d'observations sur chaque formule par le docteur W** Membre du Collège Royal de Londres.
Avec des Notes sur l'application des mêmes Remèdes, & une Table des Maladies.

Paris, Hetissant, 1757.

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200 €

First french edition of this pharmacopoeia.

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.

MONRO, Alexander || [THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE, Marie Geneviève].

Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'Anglois de M. Monro, où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui répresentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte & du foetus, avec leurs explications par M. Sue.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1759.

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3400 €

First edition in french (first edition in english published in 1726, in small octavo and without plates.
Translated by a women, Marie d'Arconville.
This is the first anatomical work produced by a woman.

POUTEAU, Claude.

Mélanges de chirurgie.

Lyon, Geofroy Regnault, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

FLOYER, Jean.

Traité de l'asthme, contenant la description, les causes et le traitement de cette maladie.

Paris, P. Fr. Didot, 1761.

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600 €

First edition in french.
Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma.

LA MONTAGNE, Étienne de.

Essai sur les fievres aiguës.

Bordeaux, Labottiere, 1762.

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120 €

Rare first edition.

CANGIAMILA (F.E.).

Abrégé de l'embryologie sacrée.

Paris, Nyon, 1762.

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250 €

Rare first French edition of this curious treatise on embryology.
The author discusses ways to prevent abortion, the need for caesarean section during difficult childbirth or when the mother died, of prematurity and conditions of the baptism of infants (monsters, children resuscitated after apparent death, children held in the matrix, ...).

nice copy.

DAVID, Jean Pierre.

Recherches sur la manière d'agir de la saignée, et sur les effets qu'elle produit relativement à la partie où on la fait.

Paris, Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1763.

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95 €

Second edition.
Rare work on bleeding.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

Berlin, s.n., 1765.

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400 €

First edition.

RAULIN, Joseph.

Traité des fleurs blanches avec la méthode de les guérir.

Paris, Herissant fils, 1766.

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175 €

First edition.
Book devoted to leucorrhoea to which the author attributes systemic causes and recommends rules of hygiene to prevent them.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.

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600 €

First edition.

MALON, M. de.

Le Conservateur du Sang humain.

Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1766.

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250 €

First edition.
The first treatise devoted to demonstrating the dangerousness of bloodletting!

"If I can prove that the most wisely ordered bloodletting is always pernicious & often fatal, whatever good it seems to do, the public will gain a lot" (excerpt from the preface)

bound with the following :
[BRILLOUE], Essai théorique et pratique sur les maladies des nerfs, Paris, Delalain, 1766
Rare essay attributed to Brilloue, making the state of knowledge in "nevrology" field of medicine then in full swing.

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.

BACHER, Georges-Frédéric.

Précis de la méthode d'administrer les pilules toniques dans les hydropisies [et] Extrait du journal de médecine du mois de mars 1766.

Paris, Veuve Thiboust, 1767.

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120 €

Bacher kept secret, for thirty years, the receipt of his tonic pills.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

BOUILLET, Jean.

Les éléments de la médecine-pratique tirés des écrits d'hippocrate et de quelques autres médecins anciens et modernes.

First edition.

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.

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

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

LAZERME, Jacques.

Tractatus de morbis internis capitis.

First edition of this work on neurological diseases.

SYDENHAM, Thomas.

Thomae Sydenham med. doct. ac practici Londinensis Celeberrimi Opera Medica.

LIEUTAUD, Joseph.

Elementa Physiologiae.

Important first edition. Lieutaud first note here the white cells ("The globuli albicantes" p. 85), more than twenty years (1774) before the major work from William Hewson on the lymphatic system and first described the lymphocyte.

BOERHAAVE, Herman.

Praelectiones academicae de lue venerea.

The academic lectures about venereal disease of the famous Boerhaave.

WINSLOW, Jacque Benigne.

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

One of the best seller of anatomy education in the 18th century.

NUGENT, Christophe || ALSTON, Charles.

Essai sur l'hydrophobie, suivi d'une Dissertation sur la chaux-vive & sur l'eau de chaux.

CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.

Matière médicale traduite du latin.

LAZERME, Jacobi.

Curationes morborum.

HALLER, Albrecht.

Disputationes Chirurgicae selectae.

PRINGLE, John.

Observations sur les maladies des armées, dans les camps et dans les garnisons, avec un traité sur les substances septiques et anti-septiques.

First french edition.

[BERTRAND, Bernard Nicolas].

Elémens de physiologie composés en faveur de ceux qui commencent à étudier en médecine.

First edition. A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

WHYTT, Robert.

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

First edition in French.Book on the use of limewater for the treatment of urinary bladder stones.First published, successfully, in the medical journal "Edinburgh Medical Essays" with the title "On the Virtues of Lime-Water in the Cure of Stone" in 1743.

BOURDET, Etienne.

Recherches et Observations sur toutes les parties de l'Art du Dentiste.

First edition.

[MAZEAS, Guillaume].

La pharmacopée des pauvres, accompagnée d'observations sur chaque formule par le docteur W** Membre du Collège Royal de Londres. Avec des Notes sur l'application des mêmes Remèdes, & une Table des Maladies.

First french edition of this pharmacopoeia.

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.

MONRO, Alexander || [THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE, Marie Geneviève].

Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'Anglois de M. Monro, où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui répresentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte & du foetus, avec leurs explications par M. Sue.

First edition in french (first edition in english published in 1726, in small octavo and without plates. Translated by a women, Marie d'Arconville. This is the first anatomical work produced by a woman.

POUTEAU, Claude.

Mélanges de chirurgie.

First edition. Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

FLOYER, Jean.

Traité de l'asthme, contenant la description, les causes et le traitement de cette maladie.

First edition in french.Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma.

LA MONTAGNE, Étienne de.

Essai sur les fievres aiguës.

Rare first edition.

CANGIAMILA (F.E.).

Abrégé de l'embryologie sacrée.

DAVID, Jean Pierre.

Recherches sur la manière d'agir de la saignée, et sur les effets qu'elle produit relativement à la partie où on la fait.

Second edition. Rare work on bleeding.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

First edition.

RAULIN, Joseph.

Traité des fleurs blanches avec la méthode de les guérir.

First edition.Book devoted to leucorrhoea to which the author attributes systemic causes and recommends rules of hygiene to prevent them.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

First edition.

MALON, M. de.

Le Conservateur du Sang humain.

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.

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.

Important first edition.
Lieutaud first note here the white cells ("The globuli albicantes" p. 85), more than twenty years (1774) before the major work from William Hewson on the lymphatic system and first described the lymphocyte.

First edition.

A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

First edition in French.

Book on the use of limewater for the treatment of urinary bladder stones.
First published, successfully, in the medical journal "Edinburgh Medical Essays" with the title "On the Virtues of Lime-Water in the Cure of Stone" in 1743.

La pharmacopée des pauvres, accompagnée d'observations sur chaque formule par le docteur W** Membre du Collège Royal de Londres.
Avec des Notes sur l'application des mêmes Remèdes, & une Table des Maladies.

First edition in French.

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

First edition in french (first edition in english published in 1726, in small octavo and without plates.
Translated by a women, Marie d'Arconville.
This is the first anatomical work produced by a woman.

First edition.

Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

First edition in french.
Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma.

Second edition.
Rare work on bleeding.

First edition.
Book devoted to leucorrhoea to which the author attributes systemic causes and recommends rules of hygiene to prevent them.

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.