Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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DEIDIER, Antoine.

Anatomie raisonnée du corps humain, où l'on donne la manière de le disséquer, & où l'on explique les fonctions de l'Économie animale par les seules loix de la circulation, conformément aux Instituts de Médecine.

Paris, D'Houry, 1742.

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150 €

First edition.
Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

LE DRAN, Henry François.

Traité des opérations de chirurgie.

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1742.

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250 €

First edition.
Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas.

Traité des sens.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1742.

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500 €

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.

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.

GUISARD, Pierre.

Dissertation pratique, en forme de lettres, sur les maux vénériens.

Paris, De Bure, Le Breton Durand, 1743.

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150 €

Second enlarged edition.

GOURRAIGNE, Hugues.

Pathologiae conspectus, auctore Hugone Gourraigne.

Nemausi, A.A. Belle, [1743].

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450 €

Rare first edition.
Only two copies in public libraries.

[QUESNAY, François].

Recherches critiques et historiques sur l'origine, sur les divers états et sur les progrès de la Chirurgie en France.

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1744.

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650 €

First edition published at the same date than a 4to edition.
One of the first history of french surgery.

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.

LOBB, Theophile.

Traité des moyens de dissoudre, la pierre, et de guerir cette maladie & celle de la Goute, par le choix des alimens.

Paris, Durand, 1744.

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300 €

First french 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.

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.

ALLEN, John.

Synopsis universae medicinae practicae: sive doctissimorum virorum de morbis eorumque causis ac remediis Judicia: Accesserunt nunc demum casus nonnulli oppido rari.

Francfort et Leipzig, D. Knochi et Jo Georg. Eslinger, 1749.

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120 €

First edition.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

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.

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.

LAZERME, Jacobi.

Curationes morborum.

Montpellier, Rigaud, 1755.

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120 €

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.

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.

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).

[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).

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.

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.

[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.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

DEIDIER, Antoine.

Anatomie raisonnée du corps humain, où l'on donne la manière de le disséquer, & où l'on explique les fonctions de l'Économie animale par les seules loix de la circulation, conformément aux Instituts de Médecine.

First edition.Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

LE DRAN, Henry François.

Traité des opérations de chirurgie.

First edition.Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas.

Traité des sens.

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.

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

GUISARD, Pierre.

Dissertation pratique, en forme de lettres, sur les maux vénériens.

Second enlarged edition.

GOURRAIGNE, Hugues.

Pathologiae conspectus, auctore Hugone Gourraigne.

Rare first edition. Only two copies in public libraries.

[QUESNAY, François].

Recherches critiques et historiques sur l'origine, sur les divers états et sur les progrès de la Chirurgie en France.

First edition published at the same date than a 4to edition.One of the first history of french surgery.

BOUILLET, Jean.

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

First edition.

LOBB, Theophile.

Traité des moyens de dissoudre, la pierre, et de guerir cette maladie & celle de la Goute, par le choix des alimens.

First french 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.

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.

ALLEN, John.

Synopsis universae medicinae practicae: sive doctissimorum virorum de morbis eorumque causis ac remediis Judicia: Accesserunt nunc demum casus nonnulli oppido rari.

First edition.John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

SYDENHAM, Thomas.

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

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.

LAZERME, Jacobi.

Curationes morborum.

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.

HALLER, Albrecht.

Disputationes Chirurgicae selectae.

CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.

Matière médicale traduite du latin.

[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).

BOURDET, Etienne.

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

First edition.

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.

[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.

First edition.
Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

First edition.
Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

Rare first edition.
Only two copies in public libraries.

First edition published at the same date than a 4to edition.
One of the first history of french surgery.

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.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

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.