VITET, Louis. Traité de la Sangsue médicinale. 1809.

First posthumous edition.

Lyonnais physician, Louis Vitet (1736-1809) became mayor of Lyon during the revolutionary period. It is his son who publishes this book according to the works left by his father.
Complete treatise on the medicinal leech, which describes its anatomy, physiology and uses in the patient. Supplementary bleeding animal still widely used at the beginning of the 19th century.