lxxiv, 523; [4], 625 pp. With five folding engraved plates, containing 51 attractive figures of pharmaceutical instruments and utensils, numerous tables, several of them full-page, and a few simple woodcut devices in the text. (8vo) quarter period cloth and marbled boards, gilt ruled and lettered spines. Third Edition, enlarged.
Virey (1775-1846), a physician and biologist, was an important figure who taught, did research, and wrote prolifically in chemistry, pharmacy, hygiene, theoretical and practical medicine, medical philosophy, psychology, metaphysics, anthropology, philosophy of nature, and natural history, as well as authoring a lengthy treatise on the status of women in society. He obtained his M.D. degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, was Chief Pharmacist at the Military Hospital of Paris and at Val-de-Grâce Hospital in Paris, and a member of numerous learned societies. Hirsch, V, pp. 772-773. Callisen, XX, pp. 157-177 & XXXIII, pp. 159-162. Poggendorff, II, pp. 1210-1211. This work, first published in Paris in 1811, went through at least five editions by 1840, and was translated into Italian (Verona, 1834-42).
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Wear and rubbing to bindings; some offsetting to endpapers, toning and scattered foxing, affecting some plates; very good.