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Author: Brouzet, [Pierre]
Title: Essai sur l'Education Medicinale des Enfans et sur leurs Maladies
Place: Paris
Publisher: Chez la Veuve Cavelier & Fils
Date: 1754
Item # : 198077
Sale Number   393
Lot Number   27
Sale Name    
Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD
Sale Date   11/20/2008
Price realized   $ 132
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Description:
Vol. II only, of 2. [8], lxxi, [1], 404 pp. (8vo) 6½x3½, period calf, spine gilt. First Edition.
The first volume, embracing Books 1 and 2, of Brouzet's influential work on pediatrics. This first part book deals with pregnancy, the birth of the infant, and its care immediately after birth. He discusses the feeding of the newly born infant, and he is of opinion that it should be fed on breast milk.
Condition:
Wear to spine ends and corners; light dampstain to title and prelims., else very good, with the bookplate of Alain Brieux.
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