BONNEFOY, De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir, 1782
BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste.
De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir.
Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1782.
8vo (182x120 mm), (4)-163-88 pages. binding : XIXth century quarter sheep, flat spine. Retinted. Foxings. Little loss of paper on the second title page and some leaves of the second work.
Rare first edition. Not in Wheeler"s Gift.
Jean Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756-1790) Boy surgeon, then surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the College of Surgery, is the author of various medical memoirs. He had some relations with mesmerism whose ideas he shared, which is particularly evident in this work.
Bound after:
BONNEFOY, De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies chirurgicales, [Sl], 1786. 88 pages.
Price : 180 €