A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest, in which they are described according to their Anatomical Characters, and their Diagnosis established on a new principle by means of Acoustick Instruments.
Philadelphia: James Webster, 1823. Translated ... with a Preface and notes by John Forbes, M.D. Illustrated with 8 plates. viii, 319 pages. 8vo, full contemporary tree calf, leather label (spine worn, covers lightly scuffed, foxing including plates, soiling to margins of some pages, some pencil notations on first and last blank leaves). Philadelphia: James Webster, 1823. First American Edition. Very good. "Laennec is remembered for his invention of the stethoscope and for his book on ascultation. This work is the..... More