Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

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CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus).

De Re medica libri octo.

Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1549.

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900 €

Edition by Jean de Tournes.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine.
It is an extremely interesting history of medicine and surgery, including the symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter, tonsillectomy, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

The edition is followed by the poem De medicina (composed of 1115 hexameter lines) with precepts borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides on the art of healing) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a Latin author assassinated under the orders of Caracalla in 212. At the end is the poem by Q. Rhemnius Palaemon on weights and measures.

The entire work was annotated at the time in the margins in fine 16th-century handwriting. On almost every page, passages are underlined and.

MALPIGHI, Marcello.

Discours anatomiques sur la structure des visceres, sçavoir du foye, du cerveau, des reins, de la ratte.

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1683.

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1500 €

First french edition.
French translation of Malpighi's two main works, for which he is considered the founder of histology.
- De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica published in Latin in 1666, a work in which Malpighi describes the renal structure now known as the "Malpighian body"
- De pulmonibus observations anatomicae published in Latin in 1663, a work consisting of two letters to Borelli in which Malpighi sets out his discovery of capillary circulation.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

s.l., s.n., 1905.

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80 €

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

MAURICEAU, François.

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.

Paris, Jean Henault, 1668.

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5000 €

First edition.
Illustrated with 30 gynecological and obstetric engravings in the text.
François Mauriceau (1637-1709), first midwife surgeon at the Paris Maternity Hospital, is considered the founder of French obstetrics.
Mauriceau's work on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as an independent science and had, thanks to its numerous translations, a determining influence on obstetric practice in the 17th century.

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).

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.

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.

BOURGERY (J.B.) || JACOB || DUCHAUSSOY.

Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire avec planches lithographiées d’après nature par N.H. Jacob.
Ouvrage divisé en quatre parties : l’anatomie descriptive, anatomie générale, anatomie chirurgicale, anatomie philosophique
[suivi de ] DUCHAUSSOY. Suppléments. Guérin. 1867-1868.

Paris, Delaunay, 1831-54.

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6500 €

First edition.
Our copy with the rare supplement on women deseases from Duchaussoy published in 1867.

ADAM, Frantz.

Des internements abusifs, contribution à l'étude de l'assistance aux aliénés.

Paris, Maloine, 1912.

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200 €

First edition.
Frantz Adam (1886-1968) was a French psychiatrist known for photographing the First World War, particularly in the trenches while he was a soldier in the French army. He also worked throughout his life to improve the conditions of internment of psychiatric patients.
Presentation copy.

BOUDIN, Etienne.

Les Troubles de la parole : bégaiement, blésités, retard du langage, nasillement, raucité vocale, voix infantile ; causes et remèdes. La lecture sur les lèvres : faculté, pour les personnes atteintes de surdité, de comprendre la parole aux mouvements des lèvres.

Paris, Atelier typographique de l'institution nationale des sourds-muets, 1906.

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150 €

First edition.
The author explains his method for learning lip reading.
Presentation copy.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1670.

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450 €

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

Lyon, Jean Aymée Candy, 1652.

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600 €

Jean-Jacques Wecker (1528-1585) German physician, philosopher and alchemist. This book contains beauty secrets, advice on destroying parasites, information on dyes, varnishes and gilding, gardening, preserving fruit, making ink, how to remove stains, amusing physics tricks... and more esoteric chapters on demons and alchemy.

TULP, Nicolae.

Observationes Medicae.

Leyde, Georgium Wishoff, 1739.

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300 €

Nicolaes Tulp (1593-1674) was a 17th-century Dutch surgeon, famous for having been immortalized by Rembrandt in his anatomy lesson.
Numerous engravings in text.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

Paris, Bonvalot-Jouve, 1907.

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200 €

Edition by Bonvalot-Jouve of Gabriel Magny's medical thesis.
With the increase in international maritime traffic, the question arose of the spread of diseases, of which the plague is the most famous case, by rats running in ships. In 1903, an international conference on this question was held in Paris.
Magny proposed a method of fumigating ships with sulfur dioxide in order to eradicate the pests.
Presentation copy.

CRUVEILHIER, Jean.

Vie de Dupuytren.

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1841.

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60 €

First edition.
A student from Limousin and successor in Paris to his compatriot Guillaume Dupuytren, Jean Cruveilhier is currently better known by anatomists and anatomopathologists than by surgeons. Guillaume Dupuytren (1771-1835) was immediately admired by his intern Jean Cruveilhier who, developing the ideas of his boss, quickly became a master in anatomopathology. He was the first to devote a biography to his master.

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.

BELL, John || ESTOR, Jean Louis.

Traité des plaies, considérations théoriques et pratiques sur ces maladies.

Paris, Gabon et compagnie, 1825.

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150 €

First french edition.
Translation and notes by Jean-Louis Estor. John Bell was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, he was sought after for the most delicate operations.

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.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.

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250 €

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

LE DANTEC, Félix.

Introduction à la pathologie générale.

Paris, Alcan, 1906.

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100 €

First edition.
Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

CAUFAPE, Anicet.

Nouvelle explication des fièvres et de la gangrène.

Toulouse, Pierre Salabert, 1687.

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First edition.
A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

Paris, Progrés Médical & Félix Alcan, 1895.

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500 €

First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.

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1500 €

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

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.

GARROD, Alfred Baring || CHARCOT, Jean Martin.

La Goutte Sa Nature, Son Traitment Et Le Rhumatisme Goutteaux.

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1867.

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60 €

First french edition.
Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot.
Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Venise, Iuntas, 1601.

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1000 €

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

PONSART, Gilles Benoît.

Traité méthodique de la goutte et du rhumatisme, où l'on enseigne d'après expérience les vrais moyens de se délivrer & se préserver de ces maladies.

Paris, Desventes de-La-Doué, 1770.

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150 €

First edition.
Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1646.

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600 €

First edition.
Doctor-poet, Étienne Bachot (1608-1688) here chose the French language to defend bloodletting. If the use of bloodletting was then, in the middle of the seventeenth century, at its peak; some criticisms began to appear. With his membership in the Paris faculty, Bachot answers them in this work.

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.

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.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus).

De Re medica libri octo.

MALPIGHI, Marcello.

Discours anatomiques sur la structure des visceres, sçavoir du foye, du cerveau, des reins, de la ratte.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

MAURICEAU, François.

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.

LARREY, Dominique-Jean.

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

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René.

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

BUCHAN, William.

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

BOURGERY (J.B.) || JACOB || DUCHAUSSOY.

First edition. Our copy with the rare supplement on women deseases from Duchaussoy published in 1867.

ADAM, Frantz.

Des internements abusifs, contribution à l'étude de l'assistance aux aliénés.

First edition.Frantz Adam (1886-1968) was a French psychiatrist known for photographing the First World War, particularly in the trenches while he was a soldier in the French army. He also worked throughout his life to improve the conditions of internment of psychiatric patients.Presentation copy.

BOUDIN, Etienne.

Les Troubles de la parole : bégaiement, blésités, retard du langage, nasillement, raucité vocale, voix infantile ; causes et remèdes. La lecture sur les lèvres : faculté, pour les personnes atteintes de surdité, de comprendre la parole aux mouvements des lèvres.

First edition.The author explains his method for learning lip reading.Presentation copy.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain."One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

WECKER, Jean Jacques.

Les Secrets et merveilles de nature.

TULP, Nicolae.

Observationes Medicae.

Nicolaes Tulp (1593-1674) was a 17th-century Dutch surgeon, famous for having been immortalized by Rembrandt in his anatomy lesson.Numerous engravings in text.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

CRUVEILHIER, Jean.

Vie de Dupuytren.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

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

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.

BELL, John || ESTOR, Jean Louis.

Traité des plaies, considérations théoriques et pratiques sur ces maladies.

First french edition.Translation and notes by Jean-Louis Estor. John Bell was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, he was sought after for the most delicate operations.

BELL, Benjamin.

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

First french edition.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.Nice copy.

LE DANTEC, Félix.

Introduction à la pathologie générale.

First edition.Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

CAUFAPE, Anicet.

Nouvelle explication des fièvres et de la gangrène.

First edition.A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

First edition.Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

First edition in french.This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

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.

GARROD, Alfred Baring || CHARCOT, Jean Martin.

La Goutte Sa Nature, Son Traitment Et Le Rhumatisme Goutteaux.

First french edition.Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot. Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Third edition.The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale. "De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

PONSART, Gilles Benoît.

Traité méthodique de la goutte et du rhumatisme, où l'on enseigne d'après expérience les vrais moyens de se délivrer & se préserver de ces maladies.

First edition.Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

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.

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

WINSLOW, Jacque Benigne.

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

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

First edition.
Our copy with the rare supplement on women deseases from Duchaussoy published in 1867.

First edition.
The author explains his method for learning lip reading.
Presentation copy.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

Nicolaes Tulp (1593-1674) was a 17th-century Dutch surgeon, famous for having been immortalized by Rembrandt in his anatomy lesson.
Numerous engravings in text.

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.

First french edition.
Translation and notes by Jean-Louis Estor. John Bell was one of the most skilled anatomists of his time, he was sought after for the most delicate operations.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

First edition.
Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

First edition.
A doctor from Albi, Caufapé practiced medicine in Montpellier before ending his life in England.

First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

First french edition.
Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot.
Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

First edition.
Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

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