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Author: Bretonneau, P.
Title: Des Inflammations Spéciales du Tissu Muqueux et en Particulier de la Diphthérite...
Place: Paris
Publisher: Crevot
Date: 1826
Item # : 194768
Sale Number   393
Lot Number   25
Sale Name    
Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD
Sale Date   11/20/2008
Price realized   $ 180
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Description:
[viii], 540 pp. 3 folding lithographed plates. 7¾x4¾, half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt. First Edition.
Bretonneau (1778-1862) was the first to show that a number of disorders were part of the same disease. "He performed what is believed to be the first successful tracheotomy for croup" - Garrison-Morton 5053.
Condition:
Leather rubbed along joints; boards chipped, corners worn; hinges cracked, offsetting and a few marks in ink on endpapers, occasional foxing, otherwise very good.
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