Institutionum medicarum : - Pars secunda seu pathologia - Pars tertia Semioticae - Pars quarta Higieine.
Caen, s.n., 1734-1735.
12mo (170x110 mm), 78-(4)-126-(8)-109-(1) pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Binding entirely rubbed, with small lacks of leather.
Original manuscript. Medicine course given in Caen during the year 1734-1735 by François Marescot who was Professor of Medicine and Botany between 1718 and 1747. He is one of the founders of the Jardin des Plantes in Caen. This medical course is divided into four parts, similar to the manuscript of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Ms 795/1) of which the first part is also missing.
The writer is Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.