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Author: Bayle, G[aspard] L[aurent]
Title: Recherches sur la Phthisie Pulmonair
Place: Paris
Publisher: Chez Gabon
Date: 1810
Item # : 198394
Sale Number   393
Lot Number   17
Sale Name    
Medical & Science Library of Gerald I. Sugarman, MD
Sale Date   11/20/2008
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 300
High Estimate   $ 500
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Description:
xxiv, 439 pp. (8vo) 8x5, period full calf with early rebacking. First Edition.
"Bayle recognized and described six different kinds of consumption, was the first to use the term "miliary" in describing small tubercles, and successfully related tuberculosis of the lung to the same disease in other parts of the body. His efforts culminated in the present work which is generally accepted to have been the basis of Laennec's research." - Heirs of Hippocrates, 1291. Garrison-Morton 2322; Waller 798; Wellcome II, p. 121.
Condition:
Extremities rubbed, hinges cracked, remnant of bookplate on front pastedown; light foxing, some pencil markings; good.
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