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Do you know the quote from Georges Canguilhem "Medicine is an art at the crossroads of several Sciences"?
This is the history taught by our rare books on medicine, surgery and pharmacy: first empirical then experimental, the art of healing has been nourished by scientific progress over the centuries.
Discover how the sick were cared for under the elder ages.

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Photo BROUSSAIS, François Joseph Victor. 

BROUSSAIS, François Joseph Victor. 

Cours de phrénologie. 

Paris, Baillière, 1836.
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120 €

First edition.
Broussais the most famous doctor of the Restoration also gave a course in phrenology and created the Phrenological Society of Paris in 1831.

Photo COMBE, George || LEBEAU, H. 

COMBE, George || LEBEAU, H. 

Traité de phrénologie. 

Bruxelles, Société Belge de librairie, 1840.
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110 €

Translated in french with notes by Lebeau.
George Combe is one of the pioneers of phrenology, he founded in 1820 the Phrenological Society of Edinburgh, the first and most famous working group on the subject.

Photo FARABEUF, Louis Hubert || VARNIER, Henri. 

FARABEUF, Louis Hubert || VARNIER, Henri. 

Introduction à l'étude clinique et à la pratique des accouchements : Anatomie - présentations et positions - mécanisme - toucher - manœuvres - extraction du siège - version -forceps. 

Paris, Steinheil, [v. 1891].
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80 €

Very richly illustrated book with 362 figures in the text.

Photo TROUSSEAU, Armand. 

TROUSSEAU, Armand. 

Clinique médicale de l'Hotel-Dieu de Paris. 

Paris, Baillière et fils, 1877.
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75 €

Compilation of observations drawn from a working life as a doctor at the Hotel Dieu in Paris.

Photo LELUT, Francisque. 

LELUT, Francisque. 

Du Démon de Socrate specimen d'une application de la science psychologique à celle de l'Histoire. 

Paris, Trinquart, 1836.
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60 €

First edition.

Photo FORGUE, Emile || RECLUS, Paul. 

FORGUE, Emile || RECLUS, Paul. 

Traité de thérapeutique chirurgicale. 

Paris, Masson et cie, 1898.
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50 €

Few engravings in text.

Photo LALLEMAND, Claude François. 

LALLEMAND, Claude François. 

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

Paris, Baudouin, 1820.
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45 €

First edition.
First volume of Lallemand's research on the brain which will be completed until 1834 (fruther published by Béchet).

Photo [HUNAULD, François-Joseph]. 

[HUNAULD, François-Joseph]. 

Nouveau traité de physique sur toute la Nature; ou méditations, et songes sur tous les corps dont la médecine tire les plus grands avantages pour guérir le corps humain; & où l'on verra plusieurs curiositez qui n'ont point paru. 

Paris, Didot, 1742.
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300 €

First edition.

Photo MONRO, Alexander || [THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE, Marie Geneviève]. 

MONRO, Alexander || [THIROUX D'ARCONVILLE, Marie Geneviève]. 

Traité d'ostéologie, traduit de l'Anglois de M. Monro, où l'on a ajouté des planches en taille-douce, qui répresentent au naturel tous les os de l'adulte & du foetus, avec leurs explications par M. Sue. 

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1759.
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3400 €

First edition in french (first edition in english published in 1726, in small octavo and without plates.
Translated by a women, Marie d'Arconville.
This is the first anatomical work produced by a woman.

Photo COWPER, William. 

COWPER, William. 

Anatomia corporum humanorum centum et quatuordecim tabulis singulari artificio, nec minori elegantia ab excellentissimis, qui in Europa sunt, artificibus ad vivum expressis, atque in aes incisis illustrata amplius explicata, multisque novis anatomicis inventis, chirurgicisque observationibus accedunt ejusdem introduction in oeconomiam animalium & index in totum opus. Omnia nunc primum latinitate donata. Curante Guilielmo Dundass, Britanno M.D. - Appendix, repraesentans externos musculos et diversas partes corporis humani quae vel omissa erant, vel non bene expressa in praecedentibus tabulis. Delineata ad vivum. 

Lugduni batavorum, Joannem Arnoldum Langerak, 1739.
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8500 €

First latin edition of one of the most beautiful anatomical atlas of the eighteen century.
Bound in our copy, the supplement with 5 additional plates, published in 1750 for the second latin edition.

Photo DAGONET, Henri. 

DAGONET, Henri. 

Traité élémentaire et pratique des maladies mentales suivi des considérations pratiques sur l'administration des asiles d'aliénés. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1862.
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450 €

First edition.
Henri Dagonet (1823-1902) was the first head of the psychiatry department at the Hospital Ste Anne. His Elementary Treatise will remain a reference work for generations of psychiatrists and has been republished many times.

Photo PICHOTUS, Petrus. 

PICHOTUS, Petrus. 

De rheumatismo, catharrho variisque a cerebro destillationibus, & horum curatione Libellus. 

Burdigalae, S. Millangium, 1577.
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900 €

Rare first edition.
It's the first use of the word "rheumatism".
The root ‘rheum’ refers to bodily fluids rather than ‘rheumatism’ as we know it today.
This book is about curing the common cold, rather than ailments of the joints.

Photo GLASER, Christophle. 

GLASER, Christophle. 

Traité de la Chymie. 

Lyon, Pierre & Benoit Bailly, 1670.
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900 €

Third augmented edition.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

Photo BARRAS, Jean Pierre Tobie. 

BARRAS, Jean Pierre Tobie. 

Traité sur les gastralgies et les entéralgies ou maladies nerveuses de l'estomac et des intestins [suivi de] Précis analytique sur le cancer de l'estomac et sur ses rapports avec la gastrite chronique et les gastralgies. 

Paris, Béchet, 1827.
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70 €

Second edition.
Gastroenterology work that makes the link between nervous diseases and stomach ailments. Among the treatments offered, we recommend gymnastics and the great outdoors!

bound to the following:

BARRAS, Precise analytical on stomach cancer and its relationship with chronic gastritis and gastralgia, Paris, Béchet and Labé, 1842.

Photo GLISSON, Francis. 

GLISSON, Francis. 

Tractatus de ventriculo et intestinis. Cui praemittitur alius, de partibus continentibus in genere, & in specie, de iis abdominis. 

Amsterdam, Jacobum Juniorem, 1677.
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300 €

Edition published same year as the first published in London.

Photo GOURRAIGNE, Hugues. 

GOURRAIGNE, Hugues. 

Tractatus de febribus, juxta circulationis leges. 

Montpellier, Jean Faure, 1730.
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200 €

First edition.
Hugues Gourraigne (1689-1753) was professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, follower of
principles of Fizes.
Ex dono of the author to Bouillet on the title page, probably Jean Bouillet (1690-1777) who studied medicine in Montpellier and practiced in Béziers. He is notably the author of a book on fevers, published in 1756.

Photo FODERE, François Emmanuel. 

FODERE, François Emmanuel. 

Essai de physiologie positive, appliqué spécialement à la médecine pratique. 

Avignon, Veuve Séguin et fils, 1806.
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200 €

First edition.
Interesting preface in which the author discusses the trends that shaped medicine at the time. Fodéré navigates there between what is not yet called positivism (Auguste Comte will not come until a few decades later) and the vitalism promoted by the school of Montpellier.
Fodéré will later hold the chair of forensic medicine in Strasbourg and will be considered the founder of this discipline.

Photo BURSTIN, Jacques. 

BURSTIN, Jacques. 

Désagrégation, régression et reconstruction dans la schizophrénie. 

Toulouse, Eugène Privat, 1963.
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30 €

First edition.

A cover letter written by Jacques Burstin's wife is pasted inside the book, addressed to an unnamed chief medical officer.

Photo CULLERE, Alexandre. 

CULLERE, Alexandre. 

Nervosisme et névroses, hygiène des énervés et des névropathes. 

Paris, J.B. Baillière et fils, 1892.
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35 €

Second edition.
One of the very first works of psychiatry intended for the general public.

Photo DE FLEURY, Maurice. 

DE FLEURY, Maurice. 

L'Insomnie et son traitement. 

Paris, Société d'éditions scientifiques, 1894.
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75 €

First edition.

Maurice de FLEURY (1860-1931) doctor, specialized in psychiatry, he twice received the Bordin prize from the French Academy.

Photo BOUYER, Henri. 

BOUYER, Henri. 

Contribution à l'étude clinique des réticences chez les aliénés. 

Paris, Jouve et Cie, 1920.
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75 €

First edition.

Dedication from the author to Dr Reboul-Lachaux, in memory of their studies.

Photo REGIS, Emmanuel. 

REGIS, Emmanuel. 

Manuel pratique de médecine mentale. 

Paris, Octave Doin, 1885.
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45 €

First edition.
Book which will know several reissues.
Emmanuel Régis (1855-1918) was chief physician of the asylum service and teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux.

Photo HERR, Maurice. 

HERR, Maurice. 

Morphologie et fonction dans le système musculaire de la vie de relation chez l'homme. 

Lyon, J. Gallet, juillet 1889.
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75 €

First edition.

Medical thesis presented at the Faculty of Lyon.

Photo GOUVERT, Antoine. 

GOUVERT, Antoine. 

Essai médico-chirurgical sur les anévrismes savoyards. 

Montpellier, Izar et Ricard, 1802.
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100 €

Medical thesis defended by the Savoyard doctor Antoine Gouvert in Montpellier on 29 Nivose year X (January 19, 1802).

Photo MABILLE, Henri. 

MABILLE, Henri. 

Congrès annuel de médecine mentale; quatrième session tenue à la Rochelle du 1er au 6 aout 1893; comptes rendus publiés par le Docteur H. Mabille. 

La Rochelle, E. Martin successeur de G. Mareschal, 1894.
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90 €

First edition.
Reports of the conferences held at the 4th congress of mental medicine in 1893. The subjects dealt with are very diverse: organization of asylums (including considerations on the pensions of caregivers), experimental research (long article on the toxicity of the urine of the insane. ), or description of clinical cases. Such as this article on a mental patient held by his parents in a 1 cubic meter cage in a village in the Pyrenees against a background of superstitious beliefs.

Among the contributors are some great names in psychiatry of the time: Cullère, Brissaud, Bourneville.

Photo BINET, Léon. 

BINET, Léon. 

Extraits du traité de physiologie normale et pathologique. 

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1931.
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250 €

Eleven offprint of artcile from Léon Binet published in the "Traité de physiologie normale et pathologique" (an encyclopedia of physiology published by Masson from 1926 under the direction of Léon Binet et de G.-H. Roger) that he sends to Simone Lenseigne: "These physiology extracts in which she will find passages from the course".
- La Soif
- Mouvements de l'Appareil digestif : préhension, mastication et déglutition
- Le Poumon (considérations histophysiologiques et biochimiques)
- Les Fonctions internes du poumon
- Etude physio-pathologique de divers troubles respiratoires
- La Lymphe
- La Lutte contre le froid
- La circulation cérébrale
- Physiologie du nouveau-né et du nourisson
- L'oeuf d'oiseau
- La Croissance (étude physiologique).

Photo PARROT-LARIVIERE, Armand. 

PARROT-LARIVIERE, Armand. 

Code du médecin, recueil complet de la législation et de la jurisprudence sur la profession. 

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1875.
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60 €

First edition.
Doctor's code written by a lawyer and published in the "professional library" at Delahaye who undoubtedly wanted to imitate the form of Roret manuals.
"Our professional library aims to reproduce the legislation and case law which govern the professions subject to special regulations" (preface).

Uncommon book.

Photo [BRISSAUD, Edouard || MARIE, Pierre || MEIGE, Henri...]. 

[BRISSAUD, Edouard || MARIE, Pierre || MEIGE, Henri...]. 

Revue Neurologique - réunion de 6 numéros consacrés aux congrès des aliénistes et neurologistes. 

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1900-1904.
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80 €

A gathering of 7 issues of the Revue Neurologique published in the summers of 1900 to 1904, these issues have the particularity of publishing the reports of the annual congress of French-speaking alienists and neurologists.
July 14, 1900
n ° 15 August 1900
n ° 16 August 1901
n ° 16 August 1902
n ° 11 June 1903
n ° 16 August 1903
n ° 16 August 1904.

Photo [MANUSCRIT MEDECINE]. 

[MANUSCRIT MEDECINE]. 

Article sur l'allaitement. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1900].
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60 €

Article (or part of article) handwritten by an unknown hand on breastfeeding. Numerous corrections to the text which suggest that this is a test before publication, but of which we have not found the published article.
The author finishes his text by advising breastfeeding the baby from the time of delivery.

Photo FIZES, Antoine. 

FIZES, Antoine. 

Prescription médicale manuscrite. 

s.l., s.n., 1750.
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Medical prescription written on March 21, 1750 by Antoine Fizes (1689-1765) famous doctor of the faculty of Montpellier.

Prescription of treatment for a patient with suppurative glands on the neck. The treatment is based on various fumigations, broths and decoctions, some based on compounds that seem strange to us today such as crushed woodlice, crayfish or turtle soup.

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