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Photo AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard. 

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative. 

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.
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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

Photo BORDEU, Théophile de || MINVIELLE. 

BORDEU, Théophile de || MINVIELLE. 

Traité de médecine théorique & pratique, extrait des ouvrages de M. de Bordeu. 

Paris, Ruault, 1774.
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50 €

First edition.

Théophile de Bordeu, (1722 -1776) was a French doctor and philosopher who was an important representative of vitalism. He was part of "L'Encyclopédie" (medecine's articles) and was Madame du Barry's doctor.

Photo HALLER, Albrecht von. 

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.

Photo PIQUER, Andrès. 

PIQUER, Andrès. 

Praxis medica ad usum scholae Valentinae. 

Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1775.
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75 €

Second edition.

Photo VOULLONNE, Ignace-Vincent. 

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.

Photo LE BRUN. 

LE BRUN. 

Traité théorique sur les maladies épidémiques, dans lequel on examine s'il est possible de les prévoir, & quels seroient les moyens de les prévenir & d'en arrêter les progrès ?. 

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1776.
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Rare first edition o this work on epidemics and the importance of the role of the state to successfully contain them.

Photo LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis. 

LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis. 

Observations sur les maladies épidémiques. Ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des épidémiques d'Hippocrate et dans lequel on indique la meilleur méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies. 

Paris, Vincent, 1776.
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350 €

First edition.
Work which relates the epidemics of fever which occurred in Normandy at Gros-Theil and Louviers during the year 1770.

Photo CARRERE, Joseph-Barthélemy-François. 

CARRERE, Joseph-Barthélemy-François. 

Le médecin ministre de la nature, ou recherches et observations sur le pépasme ou coction pathologique. 

Amsterdam, Ruault, 1776.
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220 €

First edition of this book in which the author stands with reason against the indiscriminate use of purgatives, and recommend expectant medicine (Dezeimeris).

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 WHYTT, Robert. 

WHYTT, Robert. 

Traité sur les maladies nerveuses, hypocondriaques et hystériques. 

Paris, P. Fr. Didot, 1777.
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250 €

Second edition in french.

Photo CHAYROU, Pierre Roger || THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton. 

CHAYROU, Pierre Roger || THEDEN, Johann Christian Anton. 

Progrès ultérieurs de la chirurgie, ou Remarques & observations nouvelles de M. Theden, un des Chirugiens-généraux de S.M. le roi de Prusse. 

Bouillon, Société typographique, 1777.
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200 €

First edition in french.
Translation by Pierre Chayrou of the German work by Theden.

Photo DIONIS, Pierre. 

DIONIS, Pierre. 

Cours d'Opérations de Chirurgie. 

Paris, Veuve d'Houri, 1777.
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200 €

Pierre Dionis (1643-1718) gave anatomy lessons at the Faculty of Medicine of Paris from 1672, he introduced the discoveries of William Harvey on the circulation of the blood. In 1712, he became doctor and first surgeon of the Dauphin, of the House of France and of several princes of the blood.

Many plates of surgical instruments and many engravings in the text.

Photo VILLIERS, Jacques-François de. 

VILLIERS, Jacques-François de. 

La médecine-pratique de Londres;
Ouvrage dans lequel on a exposé la définition et les symptômes des maladies, avec la méthode actuelle de les guérir. 

Paris, Ségaud, 1778.
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250 €

First french edition.

Photo GOULARD, Thomas. 

GOULARD, Thomas. 

Oeuvres de Chirurgie. 

Pezenas, Veuve Gontier, 1778.
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180 €

Thomas Goulard (1697 -1784) was, towards the middle of the 18th century, royal demonstrator of surgery and anatomy in Montpellier and major surgeon of the military hospital of this city.
We owe him "the water of Goulard", nickname taken by the solution of lead acetate that Goulard recommends, under the name of Saturn extract in his works, against a whole anthology of diseases.

Photo LEVACHER de La FEUTRIE, A. F. Thomas. 

LEVACHER de La FEUTRIE, A. F. Thomas. 

L'école de Salerne ou l'art de conserver la Santé, En vers latins & francois, Avec des Remarques; recueillie, augmentée & publiée par M. Levacher de la Feutrie. 

Paris, Méquignon l'Aîné, 1782.
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85 €
Photo BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir. 

Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1782.
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180 €

Rare first edition. Not in Wheeler"s Gift.
Jean Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756-1790) Boy surgeon, then surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the College of Surgery, is the author of various medical memoirs. He had some relations with mesmerism whose ideas he shared, which is particularly evident in this work.

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BONNEFOY, De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies chirurgicales, [Sl], 1786. 88 pages.

Photo MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

MARAT, Jean-Paul. 

Oeuvres de Marat.
I. Recherches Physiques sur l'Electricité.
II. Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale. 

Paris, Clousier - Méquignon, 1782-1784.
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950 €

First edition of two rare books from Marat on electricity.

I. "Recherces Physiques sur l'Electricité". Paris. Clousier. 1782.
II. "Mémoire sur l'électricité médicale". Paris. Méquignon. 1784.

Photo POUTEAU, Claude. 

POUTEAU, Claude. 

Oeuvres posthumes de M. Pouteau, docteur en médecine, chirurgien en chef de l'Hôtel Dieu de Lyon. 

Paris, Ph. - D. Pierres, 1783.
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300 €

First edition.
Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.
He brings many observations on cancer and he is the first to describe the fracture of the lower end of the radius with posterior tilt published several decades before the description given by Abraham Colles, called the Pouteau-Colles fracture in France (and only Colles fracture outside France).
A very good Copy.

Photo SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro. 

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro. 

Expériences sur la digestion de l'homme et de différentes espèces d'animaux avec des considérations sur sa méthode de faire des expériences et les conséquences pratiques qu'on peut tirer en médecine de ses découvertes par Jean SENEBIER. 

Genève, Barthelemi Chirol, 1783.
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250 €

First separate and first edition in french of this work in which Spallanzani confirmed earlier doctrines of the solvent property of the gastric juice and discovered the action of the saliva in digestion. He stated that gastric juice can act outside the body and can prevent or inhibit putrefaction. He obtained gastric juice by tying a sponge on a piece of string, then allowing it to be swallowed.

Photo PELLIER DE QUENGSY, Guillaume. 

PELLIER DE QUENGSY, Guillaume. 

Recueil de mémoires et d'observations, tant sur les maladies qui attaquent l'oeil et les parties qui l'environnement, que sur les moyens de les guérir. 

Montpellier, Jean Martel aîné, 1783.
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300 €

First edition.
Book in which Pellier de Quengsy returns in detail on the mode of operation of cataracts using his ophthalmotome instrument of his invention.

Copy numbered (n ° 502) and signed by the author.

Photo POUPART, Pierre-Jacques-Joseph. 

POUPART, Pierre-Jacques-Joseph. 

Traité des dartres. 

Paris, Méquignon, 1784.
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170 €

Second edition.
Very good copy.

Photo RETZ. 

RETZ. 

Recherches pathologiques, anatomiques et juduciaires, sur les signes de l’empoisonnement. 

Londres, et se trouve à Paris, Méquignon, 1784.
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250 €

Rare book on forensic medicine.

Photo TISSOT, Samuel Auguste André David. 

TISSOT, Samuel Auguste André David. 

Traité des nerfs et de leurs maladies. 

Lausanne, LL.EE, 1784.
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250 €

The first two volumes only divided into four parts (one per volume) of the Treaty of the nerves of the famous Swiss doctor.
"The book by Tissot allows, in a study on the treatment of madness, to discover more generally what were the remedies prescribed for the cure of madmen and to note that the" psychological "treatments were anecdotal" (Le Treatment des aliénés in France in the second half of the 18th century, 2002).

Photo LA FAYE, George de. 

LA FAYE, George de. 

Principes de Chirurgie. 

Paris, Méquignon aîné, 1785.
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75 €

La Faye was one on the most famous french surgeon of his time.

Photo LA FAYE, George de. 

LA FAYE, George de. 

Principes de Chirurgie. 

Paris, Méquignon aîné, 1785.
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75 €

La Faye (1699-1781) was "one of the most distinguished French surgeons" of the eighteenth century (Dezeimeris).

Photo CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François. 

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain. 

Paris, Froullé, 1787.
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170 €

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

Photo HOWARD, John. 

HOWARD, John. 

État des prisons, des hôpitaux et des maisons de force. 

Paris, Lagrange, 1788.
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700 €

First french edition of Howard's pioneering work on prisons and penal reform.

Photo BELL, Benjamin. 

BELL, Benjamin. 

Traité théorique et pratique des Ulcères. Suivi d'une Dissertation sur les Tumeurs blanches des Articulations. 

Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1788.
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120 €

First french edition.

Photo TENON, Jacques. 

TENON, Jacques. 

Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris. 

Paris, De l’imprimerie de Ph. D. Serres, 1788.
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3000 €

First edition.
A very good copy.

Photo BUCHAN, William. 

BUCHAN, William. 

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, & de guérir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples. 

Paris, Froullé, 1789.
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150 €

William Buchan was a Scottish physician (1729-1805) and author of several works, the most famous of which is Domestic Medicine or a Complete Treatise on the Means of Maintaining Health, of Curing and Preventing Diseases by Diet and Simple Remedies. This book, written in 1769, has been translated into several languages. It is divided into two parts, one is devoted to prophylactic medicine and describes the means of maintaining health and warding off diseases; the other is devoted to the description and treatment of many diseases.

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