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Author: Alibert, Jean-Louis-Marie
Title: Clinique de l'Hôpital Saint-Louis, ou Traité complet des maladies de la peau, contenant la description de ces maladies et leurs meilleurs modes de traitement
Place: Paris
Publisher: Cormon et Blanc
Date: 1833
Item # : 197216
Sale Number   393
Lot Number   6
Sale Name    
Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD
Sale Date   11/20/2008
Price realized   $ 1800
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Description:
xxiv, 390 pp. With 63 hand-colored engraved plates, most in stipple. (large folio) 21x13½, later half morocco & mottled boards, spine riled & lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Fourth Edition.
Expanded edition of Alibert's 1806 dermatological work Description des maladies de la peau observées à l'Hôpital Saint-Louis. Alibert studied for the priesthood with intentions of becoming a teacher. However, this career was ended by the Revolution when all religious orders were disbanded. Alibert turned to the study of medicine and completed his degree with a highly acclaimed thesis on pernicious intermittent fevers. Soon after graduation he was appointed to the staff of the Hôpital St. Louis where his brilliant work brought the hospital to preeminence in the treatment of skin diseases and earned him an historic role as the founder of French dermatology. The present work is noteworthy for the realistic plates. Cited references for the first edition: Cushing A133; Garrison-Morton 3986; Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1219; Waller 356; Wellcome II, p. 31.
Condition:
Some leaves with minor discoloration or aging; still fine.
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