Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.
Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1646.
8vo (166x95 mm), (16)-180 pages. binding : Contemporary full vellum, blind flat spine. First cover worn. Lower corner of the title page chipped with lack of paper.
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.