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[MANUSCRIT].
Manuel des opérations de chirurgie.
Brest, s.n., 1755.
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450 €
Original manuscript.
Surgery manual written at the Royal Naval Hospital in Brest by an unknown hand. Manuscript completed on March 17, 1755 which testifies to the teaching of military surgery in the middle of the eighteenth century.
It features various amputation procedures prominently.
[MANUSCRIT] MARJOLIN, Jean Nicolas.
Cours de chirurgie.
Paris, s.n., 1817-1818.
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600 €
Original manuscript.
Surgery course given by Jean-Nicolas Marjolin for the year 1817-1818. A specialist in anatomy, Marjolin then gave a very popular surgery course in Paris. Private teaching that he gave in his own amphitheater on rue Saint-Julien le Pauvre. In 1818, Marjolin was appointed to the chair of external pathology.
The writer is Louis Joseph Dimbarre whose medical thesis passed in 1825 in Paris can be found.
RICORD, Philippe.
Traité complet des maladies vénériennes clinique iconographique de l'hôpital des vénériens.
Paris, Librairie Henri Aniéré A. Broussois et Cie, [1851].
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250 €
First edition.
Impressive iconography representing the lesions caused by venereal diseases.
SIMONNET, Jean François.
Opérations de chirurgie divisées en 23 leçons et contenant tout ce qui a été dit, ecrit, ou pratiqué de meilleur tant en France qu'en Angleterre.
Paris, s.n., 1785.
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650 €
Original manuscript written by Jean François Simonnet, based on a course given at the Ecole Pratique de Dissection in 1785.
The practical school of dissection is the high place of teaching of surgery from its creation in 1750, teaching will always be open to novelty, unlike the Faculty of Medicine, its more conservative competitor. We find this innovative feature in this manuscript since it opens up to the best practices "both in France and in England", the two sheets of notes inserted mix English and French and refer to the teaching of Samuel Sharp.
"Sharp après avoir dit qu'on guérit sometimes by long compression parle d'autres moyens. But, dit-il, there have been various methods...".
MONTEUX, Jerôme de.
Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.
Paris, Simon Calvarin, à l'enseigne de la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.
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800 €
Second french edition.
Jérôme de Monteux, lord of Miribel, gave birth to Catherine de Médicis of the future François II and was medical adviser to Henri II.
Treatise on medicine borrowing from the ancients their advice for leading a healthy life: dietetics, sleep, economy of passions.
Published in Latin in 1557, we discover implicitly what daily life could be like at the court of France in the middle of the 16th century.
MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih.
Ioannis Mesuae Damasceni, de re medica libri tres.
Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1561.
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1000 €
Edition translated by Jacques Dubois (Sylvius) who will become the reference text.
It contains the antidote of Mesue, an Arabic-speaking doctor, pharmacopoeia which has the originality of introducing sugar into Western pharmacopoeia for the first time.
The Arabs had access to this rare commodity which was cultivated in India through their conquest in Persia.
[WEBER, Georges Adolph].
Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.
s.l., s.n., 1831.
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1200 €
Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)
Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.
LANCISI, Giovanni Maria.
Opera varia.
Venise, Sanctes Pecori, 1739.
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950 €
Second edition.
We find in this compilation of the work of the Italian doctor Giovanni Lancisi these two main contributions to medicine:
- His booklet on malaria, in which he shows that the drainage of marshes is effective in fighting against contagion.
- And the first description of cardiac syphilis. 10 beautiful plates of the anatomy of the heart.
[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE].
Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades.
Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.
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400 €
First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.
HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.
Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.
Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1550.
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2500 €
First edition in french.
These aphorisms are considered one of the founding texts of Western medicine. They contain principles and observations about health, disease and medical practice.
Each Aphorism in Latin is followed by its translation and commentary in French.
Some handwritten notes in the margins of writing from the beginning of the 17th century.
GORDON, Bernard (de).
Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.
Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1574.
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1500 €
A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.
[FRÉMONT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicolas)].
Dialogues de la Santé.
Paris, Pierre Auboüin, 1683.
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1200 €
First edition of this singular work in which cooking and health play the main roles.
FAUCHARD, Pierre.
Le Chirurgien dentiste, ou traité des dents, où l'on enseigne les moyens de les entretenir propres & saines.
Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1746.
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3500 €
Second enlarged and best edition of one of the greatest book on denstistry.
With the portrait oif Fauchard and 42 plates engraved by Scotin.
DESHAIS-GENDRON, Louis Florent.
Traité des maladies des yeux & des moyens & opérations propres à leur guérison.
Paris, Herissant, 1770.
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350 €
First edition.
Deshais-Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology in France appointed by Lamartinière at the Paris School of Surgery.
Copy signed by the author.
BROCA, Paul.
Des Anévrysmes et de leur traitement.
Paris, Labé, 1856.
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600 €
First edition.
One of the monuments of 19th century medical literature.
The physiopathological types traced by Broca, and his terminology (passive clots and active clots, simple phlenartery and varicose aneurysm, with its arterial, venous or intermediate varieties) are always used.
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.
FONTANA, Félix.
Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.
Paris, Nyon l'ainé, 1781.
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350 €
First french edition.
Fontana relates numerous experiments in which he injects venoms and poisons into animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, etc.). The majority of the work is devoted to a systematic study of viper venom but it also addresses plant poisons, such as Ticunas (probably Curare) reported on poisoned arrows from the Amazon. He is thus one of the first to approach toxicology experimentally.
GUERIN, Pierre.
Traité sur les maladies des yeux, dans lequel l'auteur après avoir exposé les différentes méthodes de faire l'opération de la cataracte, propose un instrument nouveau qui fixe l'oeil tout à la fois & opère la section de la cornée.
Lyon, V. Reguilliat, 1769.
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200 €
First edition.
Remarkable work for its plate which presents an instrument of Guérin's invention for the operation of the cararacte.
TOLET, François.
Traite de la Lithotomie ou l'Extraction de la Pierre hors de la vessie.
Paris, François H. Muguet, 1708.
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600 €
"Tolet, lithotomist at l'Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, first published this work in 1682. After many editions, this book remains as a classic contribution to the subject.[...] In Tolet's day lithotomy was one of the major and most dangerous of operations. Explicit directions are given for the operation in children as well as adults of both sexes. Particularly stressed is the need for careful restraint of the patient during surgery using strong assistants, straps, scarves, or cloths. The lesser and greater lateral perineal operations in men and women are described and illustrated. Among the many causes of the stone, the author named unleavened bread, waterfowl, curds, pap, old cheese, hard eggs, unripe fruits, the feet or legs of beef or pork, salted or spiced meats, and medicines which dehydrate the body. The plates depicted instruments, positioning of the patient, the use of the curved metal catheter, the making of the incision, and use of extracting clamps." (Heirs of Hippocrate).
The edition is illustrated with 18 plates drawn and engraved by Lalouette (instruments, operating positions, stones, etc.) and a portrait of Tolet by Maillet.
"François TOLLET (1647-1724) surgeon of King Louis XIV left a very didactic treatise on lithotomy. He helped to bring bladder size into a" regulated "surgery." (History of urology by the Association française d'urologie).
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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500 €
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.
BORDEU, Théophile de.
Recherches anatomiques sur la position des glandes et sur leur action.
Paris, G.F. Quillau, 1751.
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300 €
First edition.
A book on the origins of endocrinology.
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.
KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.
Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.
Paris, Payot, 1931.
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100 €
Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.
DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.
Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.
Paris, JB Baillière, 1867.
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250 €
First edition.
LUYS, Jules Bernard.
Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.
Paris, JB Baillière, 1874.
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250 €
First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.
BONNET, Charles.
Essai Analytique sur les facultés de l'âme.
Copenhage et Genève, Cl. Philibert, 1769.
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300 €
Second edition.
RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).
Théorie des Songes.
Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.
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600 €
First edition.
VACHER DE LA FEUTRIE, Thomas || MOYSANT, François || LA MARCELLERIE, E.
Dictionnaire de Chirurgie.
Paris, Lacombe, 1767.
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125 €
First edition.
CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Jacob.
Le Chirurgien François Charitable comprenant le droit usage des principales Operations & des principaux remèdes de Chirurgie et le moyen de s'en servir dans la cure particulière des maladies extérieures du corps humain.
Lyon, Jean Certe, 1683.
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250 €
Second edition.
Swiss doctor, Jacob Constant de Rebecque made himself known with his trilogy of "charitables": the charitable surgeon, the charitable doctor and the charitable apothecary.
BLEGNY, Nicolas de.
Le Remède Anglois Pour la Guérison Des Fièvres.
Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1682.
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250 €
First edition.
The first French book promoting Quinine for the treatment of fevers.
If Europe already knew cinchona, it was the English doctor Talbot who managed to make it popular.
"Talbot had found a way to present cinchona in such a way that it did not put off the sick. [...] Since 1678 he had been the personal physician of King Charles II, had come to France during that same year to look after little Mademoiselle. [...] He treats the dauphin and the whole royal family, and he is amply rewarded by the king who grants him naturalization." (Talbot, popularizer of cinchona in France: M. Bouvet, in Bulletin of Pharmacological Sciences, 1934. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 22nd year, n°86, 1934. pp. 307-308.)
Following the relapse of some patients he had treated, we turned away of him and he returns to England taking with him his fortune and the secret of his "English remedy".
The king then asked Nicolas de Blegny, his doctor, to publish this book delivering the recipe for the preparation and use of quinine. A chapter is also devoted to the history and use of opium.
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