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Photo LEGUE & GILLES DE LA TOURETTE. 

LEGUE & GILLES DE LA TOURETTE. 

Soeur Jeanne des Anges supérieure des ursulines de Loudun, Autobiographie d'une hystérique possédée. 

Paris, A. Delahaye et Lecrosnier, 1886.
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75 €

First edition.

Contains a reproduction of the famous letter from Asmodeus.

Photo LEROY-D'ETIOLLES, Jean Jacques Joseph. 

LEROY-D'ETIOLLES, Jean Jacques Joseph. 

Histoire de la Lithotritie précédée de réflexions sur la dissolution des calculs urinaires. 

Paris, J-B. Baillière, 1839.
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450 €

First edition.
Leroy D'Etiolles is considered to be the inventor of the lithotripter, a surgical instrument whose function is lithotripsy. Lithotripsy is the act of reducing urinary stones directly into the bladder rather than opening the bladder to extract them, which was much less invasive for the patient. This principle is still used today.

The book traces the history of lithotripter, how the instruments were gradually improved by the various doctors of the time. Many diagrams in the text of the instrumentation and the difficulties encountered in their manufacture.

The last part of the book discusses the dissolution of urinary stones by vichy water.

Photo LE CAT, Claude Nicolas. 

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas. 

Traité des sensations. 

Paris, Vallat-La-Chapelle, 1767.
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750 €

First edition.
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) a surgeon specializing in the operation of bladder stones remains famous for his work on the senses. Mechanistic doctor for whom sensations are the result of the body acting on the body (the soul therefore does not come into play), his main contribution remains on the understanding of the functioning of vision.

A Treatise on Hearing published the same year will constitute the third volume of these physiological works.

Photo MALON, M. de. 

MALON, M. de. 

Le Conservateur du Sang humain. 

Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1766.
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250 €

First edition.
The first treatise devoted to demonstrating the dangerousness of bloodletting!

"If I can prove that the most wisely ordered bloodletting is always pernicious & often fatal, whatever good it seems to do, the public will gain a lot" (excerpt from the preface)

bound with the following :
[BRILLOUE], Essai théorique et pratique sur les maladies des nerfs, Paris, Delalain, 1766
Rare essay attributed to Brilloue, making the state of knowledge in "nevrology" field of medicine then in full swing.

Photo GATTI, Angelo. 

GATTI, Angelo. 

Nouvelles reflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation. 

Bruxelles, Musier fils, 1767.
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300 €

First edition.
"The name of the tuscan physician Angelo Gatti has been closely linked to the practice and promotion of the inoculation for smallpox. Before Jenner discoveries about vaccine, this medical technique was the only way to prevent an endemic and deadly disease like smallpox. In the second half of the XVIIIth century the inoculation for smallpox became a discussed practice, able to involved in the debate not only the scientific community but also the social and political milieu. Gatti arrived in Paris in 1760 where he became famous thanks to his masterpieces: the Réflexions sur les préjugés qui s'opposent au progrès et à la perfection de l'inoculation (1764) and the Nouvelles réflexions sur la pratique de l'inoculation (1767). "
Veronica Massai, Angelo Gatti e l'inoculazione del vaiolo (1724-1798), 2016

A practical manual for performing inoculation, an unsafe process that preceded Jenner's vaccination.

Photo FLOYER, Jean. 

FLOYER, Jean. 

Traité de l'asthme, contenant la description, les causes et le traitement de cette maladie. 

Paris, P. Fr. Didot, 1761.
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600 €

First edition in french.
Floyer provided the first clear descriptions of cases of bronchial asthma.

Photo HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus]. 

HIPPOCRATE || [CORNARIUS, Janus]. 

Hippocratis Coi medicorum omnium longe principis, Opera, quae ad nos extant, omnia. 

Venise, apud Vicentium Valgrisium, 1546.
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950 €

Rare Venice edition of the works of Hippocrates by the humanist physician Janus Cornarius (1500-1558).

The printing is the work of Vicenzo Valgrisi one of the most famous printers of Venice in the 16th century, his typographic work is of high quality.

Photo VERDUC, Jean Baptiste. 

VERDUC, Jean Baptiste. 

Les Opérations de la chirurgie. Avec une pathologie. 

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1693.
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500 €

First edition.
A complete copy with the continuation of the pathology which is often missing.

Photo PELLIER DE QUENGSY, Guillaume. 

PELLIER DE QUENGSY, Guillaume. 

Recueil de mémoires et d'observations, tant sur les maladies qui attaquent l'oeil et les parties qui l'environnement, que sur les moyens de les guérir. 

Montpellier, Jean Martel aîné, 1783.
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300 €

First edition.
Book in which Pellier de Quengsy returns in detail on the mode of operation of cataracts using his ophthalmotome instrument of his invention.

Copy numbered (n ° 502) and signed by the author.

Photo TENON, Jacques. 

TENON, Jacques. 

Mémoires sur les hôpitaux de Paris. 

Paris, De l’imprimerie de Ph. D. Serres, 1788.
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3000 €

First edition.
A very good copy.

Photo MARQUET, François Nicolas. 

MARQUET, François Nicolas. 

Traité de l'Apopléxie, paralysie, et autres affections soporeuses développées par l'expérience. 

Paris, J.P. Costard, 1770.
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150 €

First edition.
Book relating many clinical cases of paralysis and comas.

Photo ROLLO, John. 

ROLLO, John. 

Traité du Diabète sucré ou affections gastriques et maladies qui en dépendent. 

Marseille, Moutardier, An VI 1797.
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250 €

First edition in French.
Rollo is the first to offer treatment for diabetes through dietary restrictions. He proposes to have a very meaty diet and to do without vegetables.

Rollo's work is bound with the following:
NICOLAS, Medical and chemical research and experiments on diabetes mellitus, Paris, Méquignon, 1803.

Photo BOURGEOIS, Louise. 

BOURGEOIS, Louise. 

Observations diverses, sur la stérilité, perte de fruict, fécondité, accouchements et maladies des femmes et enfants nouveaux naiz. 

Rouen, Thomas Dare, 1626.
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Third edition.
First obstetrics book written by a midwife.
Louise Bourgeois (1563-1636), known as La Boursier, is known to have given birth to Queen Marie de Médicis.
His treatise, published in 1609, was enriched with a second part in 1617 and a third in 1627 (this third part is missing from our copy).

Photo CLOQUET, Jules. 

CLOQUET, Jules. 

Traité de l'Acupuncture. 

Paris, Béchet jeune, 1826.
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500 €

First edition.
Jules Germain Cloquet (1790-1883), well known for his work in anatomy, tried his hand at the practice of alternative medicine at the Saint Louis Hospital with hypnotism and acupuncture.
His treatise on acupuncture is the first French book seriously relating clinical cases from hospital practice.
Cloquet made more than 90 observations with the help of Dantu de Vannes.

Photo GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

GAVARD, Hyacinthe. 

Traité complet d'ostéologie rédigé d'après les leçons de Desault. 

Paris, Méquignon, 1805.
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90 €

Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

Photo TROY, Dominique. 

TROY, Dominique. 

Quelques réflexions sur les désordres organiques occasionnés, dans notre économie, par les peines de l'âme. 

Mâcon, Chassipollet, 1841.
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250 €

Frist edition on this rare work on depressions and their consequences
Presentation copy.

Photo RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

Des erreurs populaires relatives à la médecine. 

Paris, Cailler et Ravier, 1812.
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75 €

Second edition.
Work in which we see in counterpoints, some number of theories and medical beliefs persisting at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Richerand also pleads for the reunification of surgery and medicine.

Photo MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae nostris temporibus ignoratae libri sex. 

Venise, Iuntas, 1569.
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2000 €

First edition.

Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), when the body had been somewhat neglected by the medieval culture, was inspired by the principle of Juvénal: Mens sana in corpore sano and offers us by studying the texts of antiquity the first book of gymnastic.
"[...] its knowledge interests any man who professes medicine, especially since one finds in Hippocrates, Plato and Galen the affirmation repeated over and over again according to which exercises, if one wishes to lead a healthy life, provide benefits so great and so numerous that it is scarcely that the other resources of medicine provide so many. " (translation of part of book III)

"Heir to the galenic tradition, Mercuriale draws from Greek and Latin literature, but also from his contemporaries. Using both his medical knowledge and the achievements of antiquaria, he wrote the first treatise on gymnastics in our history, the 6 books of De Arte Gymnastica "(Jean-Michel Agasse," Le De arte gymnastica de Girolamo Mercuriale: archeology and body culture in the Renaissance ", doctoral thesis)

The folding board is the proposal for a Gymnasium plan.

Photo POTT, Perceval. 

POTT, Perceval. 

Oeuvres chirurgicales de M. Percival Pott. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1777-1792.
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500 €

First edition in French.
Percivall Pott (1714-1788), was an English surgeon specializing in the treatment of hernias. He is notably the first to describe congenital hernias. The major part of these surgical works is moreover devoted to the description and the treatment of the various hernias.
The third and last volume was published fifteen years after the first two, in 1792 by Barrois. The translator wishing to complete the Works after the death of Pott (of which he made a short biography in preliminary).
We find in this last volume the description of the curvature of the spine, which will be called Pott'disease (tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints).

Photo BOUCHUT, Eugène. 

BOUCHUT, Eugène. 

Du Nervosisme aigu et chronique et des maladies nerveuses. 

Paris, JB. Baillière et Fils, 1877.
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300 €

Second edition.
Bouchut, although he specializes in pediatrics, is the first in this book to properly characterize neurasthenia.

Photo PINEL, Philippe. 

PINEL, Philippe. 

Nosographie philosophique, ou la méthode de l'analyse appliquée a la médecine. 

Paris, J. A. Brosson, 1813.
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150 €

Fifth edition, augmented.
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) was a French clinician and doctor renowned as the precursor of psychiatry.
He is also well-known for his "Nosographie philosophique", first published in 1798, in which he classified diseases into five major groups (fevers, phlegmasias, hemorrhages, neuroses and lymphatic diseases) whith the symptoms and injuries caused.
This book quickly became a reference and was very successful as soon as it was published.

Photo SYDENHAM, Thomas. 

SYDENHAM, Thomas. 

Thomae Sydenham med. doct. ac practici Londinensis Celeberrimi Opera Medica. 

Genève, Fratres de Tournes, 1749.
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250 €

This compilation of Sydenham's work notably contains two important chapters on smallpox epidemics at the end of the 17th century.

As always in this edition, is linked to the work of Sydenham, the two treatises on arthritis by Guillaume MUSGRAVE: De arthritide symptomatica dissertatio & De arthritide anomala.
Which are the first treatises devoted to arthritis.

Photo [COLLECTIF]. 

[COLLECTIF]. 

Atlas du Journal des Connaissances médico-chirurgicales. 

Paris, Journal des Connaissances médico-chirurgicales, [v. 1832].
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250 €

Very nice set of anatomical engravings from this atlas published under the direction of Lebaudy, Trousseau and Gouraud.
The publication was spread by deliveries over ten years (212 plates in total).

Photo FRANKLIN, Alfred. 

FRANKLIN, Alfred. 

Recherches sur la bibliothèque de la Faculté de médecine de Paris d'après des documents entièrement inédits suivis d'une notice sur les manuscrits qui y sont conservés. 

Paris, Aubry, 1864.
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150 €

First edition.
Printed with 347 copies.

Photo LALLEMAND, Claude François. 

LALLEMAND, Claude François. 

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

Paris, Béchet Jeune, 1830-34.
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150 €

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).

Photo THILLAYE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. 

THILLAYE, Jean-Baptiste-Jacques. 

Traité de bandages et appareils. 

Paris, Viller, 1798.
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150 €

First edition.
Thillaye served in the army, he was a surgeon in the first regiment of the king's bodyguards, his treaty of bandages will be used on the Napoleonic battlefields.

[Bound before]
BROUSSONET, Tableau élémentaire de la séméiotique ou de la connaissance des signes de la maladie, Montpellier, Tournel, An VI
Victor Broussonet (1771-1846) will become Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier in the 19th century.

Photo LELUT, Francisque. 

LELUT, Francisque. 

Qu'est-Ce Que La Phrénologie Ou Essai Sur La Signification Et La Valeur Des Systèmes De Psychologie En Général Et De Celui De Gall En Particulier. 

Paris, Trinquart, 1836.
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120 €

First edition.
Very critical work towards Gall, but if phrenology is put forward in the title, it is in fact all the psychological sciences of time that Lelut examines.

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.

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