| 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'. £95 |
| 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. £95 |
| 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 £85 |
| 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. £160 |
| Author: |
WOOLLCOMBE, William |
| Title: |
REMARKS ON THE FREQUENCY AND FATALITY OF DIFFERENT DISEASES, PARTICULARLY ON THE PROGRESSIVE INCREASE OF CONSUMPTION: with Observations on the Influence of the Seasons om Mortality. |
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SOLE EDITION. London, Longman etc. and Ress and Curtis, Plymouth. 1808. pp. (iv), vii, 155; 25 Tables. Old marbled boards with vellum corners, new calf spine. Paper flaw on first leaf; dark stain at top margin of leaves, mainly at the beginning and end. Otherwise contents clean. |
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*Not in Wellcome; the latter has his doctoral dissertation on puerperal peritonitis published Edinburgh, 1796. The present book is concerned with statistical medicine, concentrating on the prevalence of various diseases in Plymouth with frequency of death, and with breakdown of deaths by age and month in several areas of England together with mortality data for European cities. £210 |
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