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Photo MARTIN, M. 

MARTIN, M. 

Lettres adressées aux dames de charité de la campagne. 

Auxerre, L. Fournier, 1789.
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250 €

Troisième édition.
Rare print in Auxerre of a collection of letters that sent this former apothecary of the Hotel of the royal military school to the "ladies of charity" of his diocese.
The aim was to give season after season advice on the plants to pick and the remedies that are easy to prepare for the ills of the time.

Photo DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler. 

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.
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Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.
Our edition follows the original and corrects the title page which indicated 1779 instead of 1789.

Photo DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler. 

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.
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75 €

Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus.org).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.

Photo DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph. 

DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph. 

Journal de Chirurgie. 

Paris, Chez les auteurs, 1791-1792.
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1000 €

First edition.
Journal of Surgery published under the direction of Desault, the greatest surgeon of his time (he trained Bichat, Larrey, Dupuytren...). Among the articles published during the two years of edition one finds in addition to the extracts of the courses of Desault, articles of Larrey and Bichat.
Garrison-Morton notes there the publication of the first operation of a tumor of the maxillary sinus by Plaignaud.

Photo BORDEU, Théophile de. 

BORDEU, Théophile de. 

Recherches sur le tissu muqueux, ou l'organe cellulaire, et sur quelques maladies de la poitrine. 

Paris, J. Fr. Bastien, 1791.
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80 €

Bordeu, a graduate of Montpellier and the principal representative of clinical medicine in eighteenth-century France, was the chief representative if not the founder of the school of Vitalism.
In this work, today considered as one of the most important works in the history of cell theory, Bordeu "described connective tissue - under the name mucous tissue - showing its role in exchanges, the phenomena of nutrition, and the mechanical equilibrium of organs and tissues" (DSB, II, p. 301).

Photo CHOPART, François. 

CHOPART, François. 

Traité des maladies des voies urinaires. 

Paris, Chez L'auteur, 1791-1792.
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300 €

First edition.
Treatise filled with very detailed clinical observations is very didactic. François Auguste Chopart (1743-1795) formed with Pierre Joseph Desault and the Englishman John Hunter a trio of friendly doctors who participated in the knowledge of the urinary system.

Photo LE COINTE, Jourdan. 

LE COINTE, Jourdan. 

La Santé de Mars ou moyen de conserver la Santé des Troupes. 

Paris, Briand, 1792.
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300 €

First edition with second issue of the title page (1792 instrad of 1790 for the first issue)
Interesting and original book on the health of soldiers. We are more familiar with the works of Jourdan Le Cointe on gastronomy, here he divides his remarks into three stages: Soldier Health (food, clothing, equipment), Sanitation of camps and Military Hospitals.

Photo HÉVIN, Prudent. 

HÉVIN, Prudent. 

Cours de pathologie et de thérapeutique chirurgicales. 

Paris, Méquignon, 1793.
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PRINGLE, John. 

Observations sur les maladies des armées, dans les camps et dans les garnisons, avec des mémoires sur les substances septiques et anti-septiques, et la réponse à de Haen et à Gaber. 

Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1793.
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Founder of modern military medicine
In this book, Pringle describes the common illnesses and their methods of prevention and treatment, as well as the effects of military campaigns on the health of soldiers. He also provides useful information on the role of hygiene and nutrition in the prevention of diseases and infections.

Photo SCARPA, Antoine. 

SCARPA, Antoine. 

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu. 

Milan, Josephi Galeatti, 1794.
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1200 €

Second edition with same plates as the first edition(1789).

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[CONVENTION NATIONALE]. 

Instruction sur les moyens d'entretenir la salubrité et de purifier l'air des salles dans les hopitaux militaires de la République. 

Paris, Imprimerie Guillaume, An II [1794].
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100 €

First edition.
Instruction written by the War Department Health Board and voted by the National Convention.

The engraving shows a stove that is supposed to "keep the air clean in military hospitals".

Photo ROLLO, John. 

ROLLO, John. 

Traité du Diabète sucré ou affections gastriques et maladies qui en dépendent. 

Marseille, Moutardier, An VI 1797.
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250 €

First edition in French.
Rollo is the first to offer treatment for diabetes through dietary restrictions. He proposes to have a very meaty diet and to do without vegetables.

Rollo's work is bound with the following:
NICOLAS, Medical and chemical research and experiments on diabetes mellitus, Paris, Méquignon, 1803.

Photo CORVISART, Jean Nicolas || STOLL, Maximilien. 

CORVISART, Jean Nicolas || STOLL, Maximilien. 

Aphorismes sur la connaissance et la curation des fièvres. 

Paris, Régent et Bernard, 1797.
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50 €

Edition offering the text in Latin and French.
Translated by Corvisart from Stoll.

Photo SUE, Jean-Joseph. 

SUE, Jean-Joseph. 

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante. 

Paris, L'Auteur, 1797.
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90 €

First edition.
Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue.
Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

Photo THILLAYE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. 

THILLAYE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. 

Traité de bandages et appareils. 

Paris, Viller, 1798.
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First edition.
Thillaye served in the army, he was a surgeon in the first regiment of the king's bodyguards, his treaty of bandages will be used on the Napoleonic battlefields.

[Bound before]
BROUSSONET, Tableau élémentaire de la séméiotique ou de la connaissance des signes de la maladie, Montpellier, Tournel, An VI
Victor Broussonet (1771-1846) will become Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier in the 19th century.

Photo LAUTH, Thomas. 

LAUTH, Thomas. 

Elemens de Myologie et de syndesmologie. 

Bale, J.Deker, 1798.
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350 €

Rare first edition of this work on muscles and ligaments.

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LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY. 

Révolution de la médecine ou régénération de l'Art de Guérir. 

Paris, Méquignon, An VII [1799].
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350 €

Rare first edition.

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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500 €

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 SELLE, Christian Gottlieb || MONTBLANC, Jean-Baptiste. 

SELLE, Christian Gottlieb || MONTBLANC, Jean-Baptiste. 

Élémens de pyrétologie méthodique. 

Lyon, Reymann et Ce, an IX [1800-1801].
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150 €

First french edition.

Photo FODERE, François Emmanuel. FODERA, Michele. 

FODERE, François Emmanuel. FODERA, Michele. 

Traité du goitre et du crétinisme précédé d'un discours sur l'influence de l'air humide sur l'entendement humain
Relié à la suite :
Discours Sur La Biologie: Ou Science de La Vie [FODERA, Michele]. Baillère. 1826. 

Paris, Bernard, An VIII [1800].
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"Fodéré considered cretinism to be due to the concentrated air in deep valleys, rather than to water. He also drew attention to the skeletal changes". (Garrison).
The second work, rare, is from Michele Fodera. It deals with life science.

Photo SELLE, Christian Gottlieb || MONTBLANC, Jean-Baptiste. 

SELLE, Christian Gottlieb || MONTBLANC, Jean-Baptiste. 

Élémens de pyrétologie méthodique. 

Lyon, Reymann et Ce, an IX [1800-1801].
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150 €

First french edition.

Photo PINEL, Philippe. 

PINEL, Philippe. 

Traité Médico-Philosophique sur l'Aliénation mentale ou la Manie. 

Paris, Richard, Caille et Ravier, An IX [1801].
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1000 €

First edition.
"Pinel was among the first to treat the insane humanely; he dispensed with chains and placed his patients under the care of specially selected physicians. Garrison considered the above book one of the foremost medical classics, giving as it did a great impetus to humanitarian treatment of the insane. Pinel founded the french school of psychiatry" (Garisson).

Photo PINEL, Philippe. 

PINEL, Philippe. 

La médecine clinique rendue plus précise et plus exacte par l'Application de l'Analyse, ou Recueil et résultat d'observations sur les maladies aiguës, faites à la Salpêtrière. 

Paris, Brosson et Gabon, An X (1802).
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First edition.
Pinel was the Professor of Medicine in Paris and Head of the Salpetriere; he is remembered for his revolutionary and humane treatment of the insane and the work in which he described and advocated this treatment.
One of the foundins of the psychiatry Pinel's contemporaries regarded him as a master of internal medecin.

Photo DENMAN, Thomas. 

DENMAN, Thomas. 

Introduction à la pratique des accouchemens. 

Gand, A.B. Stéven, An 10 - 1802.
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150 €

First french edition.

Photo BICHAT, Xavier. 

BICHAT, Xavier. 

Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort. 

Paris, Brosson, 1802.
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120 €

Second edition.
There we find the famous definition: "life is the set of functions that resist death.".

Photo GOUVERT, Antoine. 

GOUVERT, Antoine. 

Essai médico-chirurgical sur les anévrismes savoyards. 

Montpellier, Izar et Ricard, 1802.
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Medical thesis defended by the Savoyard doctor Antoine Gouvert in Montpellier on 29 Nivose year X (January 19, 1802).

Photo BEAUPOIL, Henri. 

BEAUPOIL, Henri. 

Recherches médico-chimiques sur les vertus et les principes de cantharides. 

Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Guilleminet, An XI - 1803.
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Rare thesis. Medical and chemical research on the cantharids.

Photo LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

Relation historique et chirurgicale de l'expédition de l'armée d'Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie. 

Paris, Demonville et Soeurs, 1803.
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1300 €

First edition.
Military surgeon, Larrey took part in Napoleon's campaigns in the Middle East, he developed his skills in helping the wounded and is considered the father of emergency medicine.
Two curious engravings of genital elephantiasis which the text tells us were drawn by Charles Balzac and by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (the Raphael of roses here in a completely different register).

Photo SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas. 

SOEMMERRING, Samuel Thomas. 

Icones oculi humani. 

Francfort, Varrentrapp et Wenner, 1804.
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Remarkable edition for the plates finely engraved by Klauber, Scarpat, Kohl according to Koeck.
First Latin edition translated by Bernhard Nathanael Gottlob Schreger. This text appeared for the first time in German, in 1801.

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.

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