Pathological Researches On Phthisis..
Bound in original half morocco, with marbled boards and gilt rules on spine. Slight wear to extremities and small section of page missing from lower corner of xxxv, not affecting text. Otherwise fine condition. Library stamp of Medical Society Edinburgh on title page and bookplate of Royal College of Pathologists.
£275.00
Details
PIONEERING STUDY OF TB.
Publisher
Edward Portwine, 124, Aldersgate Street; J.T. Cox, 84, High Holborn, London. Maclachlan and Stewart, Stirling and Kenny, Edinburgh: Hodges and Smith, Dublin: Strong, Bristol: Bailliere, Paris.,
Date
1835
Synopsis
By e.[sic] ch. a. louis, doctor in medicine of the faculties of paris and st. petersburg; physician to the hospital of la pitie: perpetual president of the societe medicale d'observation; member of the royal academy of marseilles, of the imperial medico-chirurgical academy of st. petersburgh, and of the royal medical society of edinburgh. member of the legion of honour. translated from the french, with introduction, notes, additions, and an essay on treatment. by charles cowan, m.d.,e., m.d.,p. m.r.c.s.,e. member of the societe medicale d'observation; bachelier des lettres of the sorbonne; eleve of the hospitals of paris and of the ecole pratique; ex-president of the hunterian society, and member of the royal medical and ethical societies of edinburgh.
Item Description
First English edition. 8vo. 5.5 x 8.75 inches. li + [i] + 388 pp. Half-title.
Notes
A pioneering work on medical pathology, based on the clinical observation of fifty-one patients who died of phthisis (tuberculosis) in hospital in Paris. The first two sections provide autopsy reports followed by analysis of clinical features, including non-pulmonary lesions. Two final chapters examine causes (with interesting observations on occupational factors) and treatment. Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) graduated in his medical exams in Paris in 1813 and spent the next seven years practising in Russia, before returning to France as a hospital consultant in Paris. He is regarded as the founder of statistical and observational methods in clinical medicine, based on the careful collection and analysis of patient data. Louis founded the Societe d'Observation Medicale, for the promotion of evidence based medicine. He considered the common practice of bloodletting to be ineffective as a treatment and published observations on yellow fever and typhoid. (a disease which he named, being the first to establish its pathological nature). Louis's books were also published in Boston and his methods were highly regarded by east coast physicians. This English edition is a translation of his Recherches anatomico-pathologique sur la phthisie of 1825. His translator, Dr Charles Cowan (c.1806-1868) of Bath, studied under Dr Louis in Paris (see his introduction).
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