| Author: |
BAYLE, G.L. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES SUR LA PHTHISIE PULMONAIRE |
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FIRST EDITION. Paris, Chez Gabon,1810. pp. xxiv, 439. Contemporary half-calf, corners knocked. Ink sig. of Dr Fitzpatrick on f.e.p. and at top of title page which has two faint library stamps. Occasional spotting, mainly at the beginning. |
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* G&M 2322. This work represents the beginning of the modern conception of tuberculosis. Bayle (1774-1816) gave the best description to date of the varieties of tuberculosis and was the first to use the term 'miliary'. £225 |
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FERNEL, Johann |
| Title: |
UNIVERSA MEDICINA |
| Description: |
Eighth edition. Geneva, Petrus de la Rouiere, 1604. PHYSIOLOGIAE LIBRI VII: pp. 32 leaves, 647, (xxxv). DE ABDITIS RERUM CAUSIS LIBRI DUO: pp. 264, (xvi). THERAPEUTICES UNIVERSALIS, SEU MEDENDI RATIONIS, LIBRI SEPTEM: pp. 552, (xxx). Contemporary vellum, soiled and spine darkened. Single tiny worm track at base of first few leaves and larger one at base of several leaves in the text with no loss in either case. Light browning of text, very occasionally marked. |
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* Krivatsky 3999 (Lyon edition); G&M 2271 (1554 edition). The first systematic treatise on pathology. Jean Fernel (1497-1558) was born near Amiens in France and took a degree in medicine in 1530. He became the first court physician to King Henry II and saved Catherine de Medici from her state of childlessness. He was the first to describe appendicitis, endocarditis etc.; he believed aneurysms to be produced by syphilis, and differentiated true from false aneurysms. £270 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, P.C.A. |
| Title: |
RESEARCHES ON PHTHISIS |
| Description: |
Anatomical, Pathological and Therpaeutical. Translated by Walter Hayle Walshe. London, Sydenham Society, 1844. pp. xxxv, (i), 571. Original blind-stamped black cloth, small dent at edge of front cover. A very good clean copy. |
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* G&M 3221 (first edition in French). This work on tuberculosis established Louis' reputation as a clinician £35 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE. |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Gabon, 1825. pp. xxiv, 16, 560. Contemporary blue quarter calf with marbled boards, original owner's name, Dr Reilhac, at foot of spine. Browning of text, mainly light. |
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* G&M 3221. One of the most influential figures in French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1,960 clinical cases. His use of statistical analysis is noteworthy. £270 |
| Author: |
LOUIS, Pierre, Ch. A. |
| Title: |
RECHERCHES ANATOMICO-PATHOLOGIQUES SUR LA PHTHISIE |
| Description: |
FIRST EDITION. Paris, Gabon. 1825. pp. xxiv, 16, 560. Recent quarter red morocco, marbled boards. Very occasional minor browning in the text and index but an unusually clean and crisp copy. |
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* G&M 3221. One of the most influential figures in French medicine, Louis received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1813. This work on tuberculosis, which established Louis' reputation as a clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1960 cases. His use of statistical analysis is noteworthy £220 |
| Author: |
MORTON, Richard |
| Title: |
OPERA MEDICA, IN TRES TOMOS DISTRIBUTA. I. DE PHTHISI. II. DE MORBIS. III. DE FEBRIBUS |
| Description: |
Editio ultima Emendiator. Amsterdam, Donatum Donati, 1696. pp. Frontis. port. (small stain in centre), (xiv), 206, 2 folding Tables; (xlviii), 242, (xii - Index); (xl), 318, (xvii Ð Index). Later half vellum with decorated boards, retaining old label. Old (obliterated) inscription at foot of title page which is lightly browned. Occasional spotting, staining but text mainly clean and crisp. |
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* Wellcome IV, p. 185; Krivatsky 8126 (deficient). Richard Morton (1637-89), of London, was a careful observer and skilled physician. This collection includes his classic on tuberculosis (G&M 3216 - 'the first application of the principles of pathology to the study of pulmonary tuberculosis..'). The third book, on fevers, contains a lengthy account of smallpox. £210 |
| Author: |
WHITE, Thomas |
| Title: |
A TREATISE ON THE STRUMA OR SCROFULA, COMMONLY CALLED THE KINGÕS EVIL |
| Description: |
The Second Edition. London, J. Murray, J. Walter and R. and T. Turner, 1787. pp. viii, 100. Recent calf-backed marbled boards. Title a little soiled with old library inscription; very occasional light spotting/ink spots in the text but, overall, a very good copy. |
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* Blake, p. 488. Thomas White, Surgeon to the London Dispensary, dedicates this work to the President, the Marquis of Landsdown, and the Vice-Presidents of that institution. White gives a useful history of the disease, first called the KingÕs Evil in the reign of Edward the Confessor, and its various manifestations together with his recommendations for its treatment. £90 |
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