Traite Complet des Maladies Veneriennes.
Paris: Rovier, 1851.
Clinique Iconographique de l'Hopital des Veneriens. Extra illustrated, title portrait & 67 superb chromolithographic plates with descriptive letterpress. Large 4to, rebound in brown cloth, leather spine label; (some pages darkened, and foxed). Paris: Rovier, 1851. Very good.
Fine atlas illustrating the case histories and the effects of venereal disease recorded at the hospital. Ricord, born in Baltimore, established the error of John Hunter's belief that gonorrhoea and syphilis were identical...Ricord was the first to establish the characteristic phenomena of the three stages of syphilis. Castiglioni pp. 735-6; Pusey, the History and Epidemiology of Syphilis pp.559; The History of Dermatology, pp. 120-23. GM 5202; 2381 (Paris, 1838 First Edition).
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Language: French
Price: $950.00
Item #139808