Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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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 €

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).

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.

[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).

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

LA MONTAGNE, Étienne de.

Essai sur les fievres aiguës.

Bordeaux, Labottiere, 1762.

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120 €

Rare first edition.

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.

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.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.

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600 €

First edition.

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.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité des sensations.

Paris, Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1767.

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750 €

First edition.
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.

A Treatise on Hearing published the same year will constitute the third volume of these physiological works.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

Paris, Lacombe, 1767.

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180 €

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

GAUBIUS, Jérôme David.

Libellus de methode concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio tertia, iterum revisa & accurata.

Leyde, Samuelem & Luchtmans, 1767.

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150 €

Third edition.

GATTI, Angelo.

Nouvelles reflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation.

Bruxelles, Musier fils, 1767.

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300 €

First edition.
"The name of the tuscan physician Angelo Gatti has been closely linked to the practice and promotion of the inoculation for smallpox. Before Jenner discoveries about vaccine, this medical technique was the only way to prevent an endemic and deadly disease like smallpox. In the second half of the XVIIIth century the inoculation for smallpox became a discussed practice, able to involved in the debate not only the scientific community but also the social and political milieu. Gatti arrived in Paris in 1760 where he became famous thanks to his masterpieces: the Réflexions sur les préjugés qui s'opposent au progrès et à la perfection de l'inoculation (1764) and the Nouvelles réflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation (1767). "
Veronica Massai, Angelo Gatti e l'inoculazione del vaiolo (1724-1798), 2016

A practical manual for performing inoculation, an unsafe process that preceded Jenner's vaccination.

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.

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.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel dit LECLERC.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie; ou la médecine rappellée à sa première simplicité.

Paris, Lacombe, 1768.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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.

CARTHEUSER, Johann Friedrich.

Matière médicale traduite du latin.

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.

[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).

[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.

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.

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.

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.

CANGIAMILA (F.E.).

Abrégé de l'embryologie sacrée.

LA MONTAGNE, Étienne de.

Essai sur les fievres aiguës.

Rare first edition.

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.

MALON, M. de.

Le Conservateur du Sang humain.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

First edition.

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.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité des sensations.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

First edition.Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

GAUBIUS, Jérôme David.

Libellus de methode concinnandi formulas medicamentorum. Editio tertia, iterum revisa & accurata.

Third edition.

GATTI, Angelo.

Nouvelles reflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation.

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.

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

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.

First edition.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

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.