BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. Dissertation sur les médicamens qui affectent certaines parties du corps humain plutôt que d'autres; & sur la cause de cet effet. 1752.
BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François.
Dissertation sur les médicamens qui affectent certaines parties du corps humain plutôt que d'autres; & sur la cause de cet effet.
Bordeaux, Pierre Brun, 1752.
4to (160x95 mm), (235x165 mm), 44 pages. binding : Modern harcovers. Browned paper (intense on some leaves and in particular the title page). Small cut in the margin of the page 3.
Rare plaquette printed in Bordeaux of this dissertation of Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767) "who won the prize in the judgment of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sciences & Arts of Bordeaux".
The author who was a doctor and naturalist at the faculty of Montpellier, questions the mode of action and the diffusion of drugs in the human body. What pharmacists today would call pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics.