131 [Medicine]. Set of 3 works: - Lot 131

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131 [Medicine]. Set of 3 works: - Lot 131
131 [Medicine]. Set of 3 works: - GINTRAC (Élie). Observations and research on cyanosis, or blue disease. Paris, J. Pinard, 1824. In-8, [2] f., 317 p. Green half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated.First edition. Joints cracked. One spine dulled. - BOERHAAVE (Hermann). Praelectiones publicae de morbis oculorum. Editio altera Gottingensi multo emendiator. Paris, G. Cavelier, 1748. In-12, [4] f., 376 p., pl. Marbled tan basane. Illustrated with 4 folding plates. Boerhaave would have been one of the first to describe night blindness in this precious ophthalmological treatise, composed by his disciples from the courses given in 1708. Covers missing, small leather tears, corners dull. (Walleriana, 1223) - MINIME (pseudonym of doctor Auguste-Joseph Lutaud). La médecine anecdotique, historique, littéraire. Paris, J. Rousset, 1906. 3 vol. in-8, br.Recueil à l'usage des médecins, chirurgiens et apothicaires, érudits, curieux et chercheurs.Ouvrage illustré de 118 estampes, dessins et fac-simile, par notamment Lebègue ou Robida. The work abounds in anecdotes and curious studies such as La mort et l'autopsie des chefs d'états, les malades et les difformes dans l'art rémois ancien, vie de la prostituée à Venise (life of the prostitute in Venice), les fumeries d'opium (opium dens), les hommes-femmes de Madagascar (men-women of Madagascar), les infortunes d'un garçon apothicaire (the misfortunes of a boy apothecary), le charlatanisme aux Etats-Unis (quackery in the United States), etc.
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