PBA Galleries

2 volumes. xii, [1], 704; ix, [1], 760 pp. One folding plate in vol. 1 (8vo) 20x12 cm (8x5") morocco backed marbled boards. 

Laid in the volumes are numerous pages of notes, written in French in period ink. With the ownership stamp of Matthias Louis Mayor, Swiss physician and book collector. Jean-Louis-Marc Alibert (1768 – 1837) was a pioneer of French dermatology. Alibert had, at the beginning of his medical career, made courses on therapeutics and medical subjects which were followed by many listeners, and he published these lessons. The work gave Alibert the new chair of Medicine and Therapeutics founded in 1823 at the Faculty of Medicine. It takes as the basis of his Treatise on Therapeutics. In 1806, he was the first to describe a patient with mycosis fungoides The disease was formerly referred to as "Alibert-Bazin syndrome", named in conjunction with dermatologist Pierre-Antoine-Ernest Bazin.