LALLEMAND, Claude François. Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur l'encéphale et ses dépendances. 1830-34.

LALLEMAND, Claude François.

Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur l'encéphale et ses dépendances.

Paris, Béchet Jeune, 1830-34.

Three 8vo (202x125 mm), (2)-xxiii-512 pages / 571 pages / (4)-526 pages. binding : Contemporary full sheep , flat spines. Prize copies for awarded for the 1846 medical internship prize competition (accessit awarded to Jacques Amable Legrand). Binding slightly rubbed. Spines faded. Loss of leather on a corner on volume II. Paper with foxings, a browned booklet on volume III.

Complete copy with the third volume in original edition. Published in 1834, it complements previous editions.

Claude François Lallemand (1790-1854), a fervent admirer of Hippocrates, taught at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier from 1819.
“His work, very extensive, emphasizes especially the physiological disorders caused by the alterations of the body. encephalon but it also contributed to develop and individualize what will become, after him urology. " (Louis Dulieu, Revue d'histoire des sciences 1975 28-2 pp. 125-138).

provenance: Copy given to Jacques Amable Legrand for his medical internship work. Dr Legrand is remembered for having been one of the first French collectors of 19th century stamps, but also one of the first organizers of the nascent philately.

Price : 150 €

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