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CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

Paris, Progrés Médical & Félix Alcan, 1895.

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500 €

First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.

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1500 €

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

PRINGLE, John.

Observations sur les maladies des armées, dans les camps et dans les garnisons, avec un traité sur les substances septiques et anti-septiques.

Paris, Ganeau, 1755-1765.

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250 €

First french edition.

GARROD, Alfred Baring || CHARCOT, Jean Martin.

La Goutte Sa Nature, Son Traitment Et Le Rhumatisme Goutteaux.

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1867.

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60 €

First french edition.
Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot.
Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Venise, Iuntas, 1601.

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1000 €

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

PONSART, Gilles Benoît.

Traité méthodique de la goutte et du rhumatisme, où l'on enseigne d'après expérience les vrais moyens de se délivrer & se préserver de ces maladies.

Paris, Desventes de-La-Doué, 1770.

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150 €

First edition.
Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

Paris, Sébastien Cramoisy, 1646.

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600 €

First edition.
Doctor-poet, Étienne Bachot (1608-1688) here chose the French language to defend bloodletting. If the use of bloodletting was then, in the middle of the seventeenth century, at its peak; some criticisms began to appear. With his membership in the Paris faculty, Bachot answers them in this work.

LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis.

Observations sur les maladies épidémiques. Ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des épidémiques d'Hippocrate et dans lequel on indique la meilleur méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies.

Paris, Vincent, 1776.

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350 €

First edition.
Work which relates the epidemics of fever which occurred in Normandy at Gros-Theil and Louviers during the year 1770.

WINSLOW, Jacque Benigne.

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

Amsterdam, Emanuel Tourneisen, 1753.

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350 €

One of the best seller of anatomy education in the 18th century.

PINEL, Scipion.

Physiologie de l'Homme aliéné appliquée à l'analyse de l'Homme social.

Paris, Just Bouvier, 1833.

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100 €

First edition.

[NEUROLOGIE].

L'Encéphale.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1912.

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120 €

First edition.
Monthly journal of neurology, first and second semester of publication for the year 1912. journal still published today, l'Encephale essentially publishes original work in psychiatry as well as the proceedings of certain French-speaking conferences in the field.

RICORD, Philippe.

Traité complet des maladies vénériennes clinique iconographique de l'hôpital des vénériens.

Paris, Librairie Henri Aniéré A. Broussois et Cie, [1851].

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250 €

First edition.
Impressive iconography representing the lesions caused by venereal diseases.

MONTEUX, Jerôme de.

Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.

Paris, Simon Calvarin, à l'enseigne de la Rose blanche couronnée, 1572.

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800 €

Second french edition.
Jérôme de Monteux, lord of Miribel, gave birth to Catherine de Médicis of the future François II and was medical adviser to Henri II.
Treatise on medicine borrowing from the ancients their advice for leading a healthy life: dietetics, sleep, economy of passions.
Published in Latin in 1557, we discover implicitly what daily life could be like at the court of France in the middle of the 16th century.

MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih.

Ioannis Mesuae Damasceni, de re medica libri tres.

Paris, Aegidium Gorbinum, 1561.

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1000 €

Edition translated by Jacques Dubois (Sylvius) who will become the reference text.
It contains the antidote of Mesue, an Arabic-speaking doctor, pharmacopoeia which has the originality of introducing sugar into Western pharmacopoeia for the first time.
The Arabs had access to this rare commodity which was cultivated in India through their conquest in Persia.

[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

s.l., s.n., 1831.

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1200 €

Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)

Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE].

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades.

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1705.

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400 €

First edition.
In order to rationalize aid to the sick, the power of Louis XIV issued numerous decrees aimed at merging the various aid centers that existed at the time. Each town, district, religious order then had its own institution. This work contains, city by city, the institutions that must meet and the list of related edicts and decrees.

HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.

Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.

Paris, Jacques Kerver, 1550.

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2500 €

First edition in french.
These aphorisms are considered one of the founding texts of Western medicine. They contain principles and observations about health, disease and medical practice.
Each Aphorism in Latin is followed by its translation and commentary in French.
Some handwritten notes in the margins of writing from the beginning of the 17th century.

GORDON, Bernard (de).

Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1574.

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1500 €

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

[FRÉMONT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicolas)].

Dialogues de la Santé.

Paris, Pierre Auboüin, 1683.

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1200 €

First edition of this singular work in which cooking and health play the main roles.

DESHAIS-GENDRON, Louis Florent.

Traité des maladies des yeux & des moyens & opérations propres à leur guérison.

Paris, Herissant, 1770.

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350 €

First edition.
Deshais-Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology in France appointed by Lamartinière at the Paris School of Surgery.
Copy signed by the author.

BROCA, Paul.

Des Anévrysmes et de leur traitement.

Paris, Labé, 1856.

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600 €

First edition.
One of the monuments of 19th century medical literature.
The physiopathological types traced by Broca, and his terminology (passive clots and active clots, simple phlenartery and varicose aneurysm, with its arterial, venous or intermediate varieties) are always used.

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre.

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses.

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.

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500 €

First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

Paris, Nyon l'ainé, 1781.

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350 €

First french edition.
Fontana relates numerous experiments in which he injects venoms and poisons into animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, etc.). The majority of the work is devoted to a systematic study of viper venom but it also addresses plant poisons, such as Ticunas (probably Curare) reported on poisoned arrows from the Amazon. He is thus one of the first to approach toxicology experimentally.

TOLET, François.

Traite de la Lithotomie ou l'Extraction de la Pierre hors de la vessie.

Paris, François H. Muguet, 1708.

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600 €

"Tolet, lithotomist at l'Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, first published this work in 1682. After many editions, this book remains as a classic contribution to the subject.[...] In Tolet's day lithotomy was one of the major and most dangerous of operations. Explicit directions are given for the operation in children as well as adults of both sexes. Particularly stressed is the need for careful restraint of the patient during surgery using strong assistants, straps, scarves, or cloths. The lesser and greater lateral perineal operations in men and women are described and illustrated. Among the many causes of the stone, the author named unleavened bread, waterfowl, curds, pap, old cheese, hard eggs, unripe fruits, the feet or legs of beef or pork, salted or spiced meats, and medicines which dehydrate the body. The plates depicted instruments, positioning of the patient, the use of the curved metal catheter, the making of the incision, and use of extracting clamps." (Heirs of Hippocrate).
The edition is illustrated with 18 plates drawn and engraved by Lalouette (instruments, operating positions, stones, etc.) and a portrait of Tolet by Maillet.
"François TOLLET (1647-1724) surgeon of King Louis XIV left a very didactic treatise on lithotomy. He helped to bring bladder size into a" regulated "surgery." (History of urology by the Association française d'urologie).

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.

Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités.

Paris, Morel le jeune, 1742.

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500 €

First french edition published juste after the first latin edition.
The French translation is by Jacques Jean Bruhier who is sometimes credited as the sole author of the book.
Book that will terrify the whole of Europe at the idea that we could be buried still alive and which will come for some to give an explanation to the phenomena of vampirism.
More than that, the exposure of these intermediate cases between life and death opens the way to a new discipline of medicine.

BORDEU, Théophile de.

Recherches anatomiques sur la position des glandes et sur leur action.

Paris, G.F. Quillau, 1751.

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300 €

First edition.
A book on the origins of endocrinology.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

Berlin, s.n., 1765.

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400 €

First edition.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Paris, Payot, 1931.

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100 €

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1867.

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250 €

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1874.

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250 €

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

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Medicine, Surgery, Anatomy

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran.

First edition.Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

LOWER, Richard.

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang.

First edition in french.This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

PRINGLE, John.

Observations sur les maladies des armées, dans les camps et dans les garnisons, avec un traité sur les substances septiques et anti-septiques.

First french edition.

GARROD, Alfred Baring || CHARCOT, Jean Martin.

La Goutte Sa Nature, Son Traitment Et Le Rhumatisme Goutteaux.

First french edition.Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot. Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

MERCURIALE, Girolamo.

De morbis cutaneis et omnibus corporis humani excrementis tractatus.

Third edition.The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale. "De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

PONSART, Gilles Benoît.

Traité méthodique de la goutte et du rhumatisme, où l'on enseigne d'après expérience les vrais moyens de se délivrer & se préserver de ces maladies.

First edition.Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

BACHOT, Etienne.

Apologie ou défense pour la saignée contre ses calomniateurs.

LEPECQ DE LA CLOTURE, Louis.

Observations sur les maladies épidémiques. Ouvrage rédigé d'après le tableau des épidémiques d'Hippocrate et dans lequel on indique la meilleur méthode d'observer ce genre de maladies.

First edition.Work which relates the epidemics of fever which occurred in Normandy at Gros-Theil and Louviers during the year 1770.

WINSLOW, Jacque Benigne.

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain.

One of the best seller of anatomy education in the 18th century.

PINEL, Scipion.

Physiologie de l'Homme aliéné appliquée à l'analyse de l'Homme social.

First edition.

[NEUROLOGIE].

L'Encéphale.

First edition.Monthly journal of neurology, first and second semester of publication for the year 1912. journal still published today, l'Encephale essentially publishes original work in psychiatry as well as the proceedings of certain French-speaking conferences in the field.

RICORD, Philippe.

Traité complet des maladies vénériennes clinique iconographique de l'hôpital des vénériens.

First edition.Impressive iconography representing the lesions caused by venereal diseases.

MONTEUX, Jerôme de.

Conservation de santé, et prolongation de vie, livre fort utile & nécessaire non seulement aux médecins, mais aussi à toute personne qui veult avoir sa santé corporelle, sans laquelle cette vie est sans fruit.

MESUE, Yuhanna ibn Masawaih.

Ioannis Mesuae Damasceni, de re medica libri tres.

[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

[HISTOIRE DE LA MEDECINE].

Etat général des unions faites des biens et revenus des maladeries, leproseries, aumoneries et autres lieux pieux aux hopitaux des pauvres malades.

HIPPOCRATE || BRECHE, Jean.

Les Aphorismes d'Hippocrates, prince des médecins.

GORDON, Bernard (de).

Bernardi Gordonii opus, lilium medicinae inscriptum de morborum propre omnium curatione septem particulis distributum.

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages. The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

[FRÉMONT D’ABLANCOURT (Nicolas)].

Dialogues de la Santé.

First edition of this singular work in which cooking and health play the main roles.

DESHAIS-GENDRON, Louis Florent.

Traité des maladies des yeux & des moyens & opérations propres à leur guérison.

First edition.Deshais-Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology in France appointed by Lamartinière at the Paris School of Surgery.Copy signed by the author.

BROCA, Paul.

Des Anévrysmes et de leur traitement.

First edition.One of the monuments of 19th century medical literature. The physiopathological types traced by Broca, and his terminology (passive clots and active clots, simple phlenartery and varicose aneurysm, with its arterial, venous or intermediate varieties) are always used.

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre.

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

TOLET, François.

Traite de la Lithotomie ou l'Extraction de la Pierre hors de la vessie.

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.

Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités.

BORDEU, Théophile de.

Recherches anatomiques sur la position des glandes et sur leur action.

First edition.A book on the origins of endocrinology.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

First edition.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations. This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

First french edition.
Work translated from English by Auguste Ollivier and annotated by Jean-Martin Charcot.
Charcot had given an article a few years earlier on the anatomical alterations of gout with André Cornil.

Third edition.
The first work dedicated to skin diseases, written by Paul Aicardi based on lessons from Mercuriale.

"De decoratione liber", usually linked to the sequel to De morbis cutaneis, is absent here.

First edition.
Ponsart received the title of doctor of medicine at the University of Reims in 1765, he then became a consulting physician to the prince-bishop of Liège and the prince-abbot of Stavelot.

First edition.
Work which relates the epidemics of fever which occurred in Normandy at Gros-Theil and Louviers during the year 1770.

First edition.
Monthly journal of neurology, first and second semester of publication for the year 1912. journal still published today, l'Encephale essentially publishes original work in psychiatry as well as the proceedings of certain French-speaking conferences in the field.

First edition.
Impressive iconography representing the lesions caused by venereal diseases.

A major work by Bernard de Gordon, Montpellier doctor from the beginning of the 15th century. He exposes there a knowledge heir to the knowledge of medicine of the Middle Ages.
The first mention of spectacles is found in the Lilium medicinae.

First edition.
Deshais-Gendron was the first professor of ophthalmology in France appointed by Lamartinière at the Paris School of Surgery.
Copy signed by the author.

First edition.
One of the monuments of 19th century medical literature.
The physiopathological types traced by Broca, and his terminology (passive clots and active clots, simple phlenartery and varicose aneurysm, with its arterial, venous or intermediate varieties) are always used.

First edition.
A book on the origins of endocrinology.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.