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CHARCOT, J. M. (JEAN MARTIN) LOOMIS, ALFRED LEBBEUS Clinical lectures on the diseases of old age, by J. M. Charcot. Tr. by Leigh H. Hunt ... With additional lectures by Alfred L. Loomis ...
New York, W. Wood & company, from Wood's library of standard medical authors. 1881, First American Edition. Hard Cover, 23 cm.xv, 280 Pp. III pl. Mint/No Jacket.¶ Lectures 1-21 are translated from Charcot's leçons cliniques sur les maladies des vieillards et les maladies chroniques. First translation and First American Edition of these lectures by the founder of the modern science of geriatrics and his first follower. RLIn 4 Locs. Garrison & Morton 2222 (citing the French original). ""Charcot inaugurated a course of study of geriatrics in 1866; his lectures are embodied in the above work." And "A fundamental document in the history of internal medicine." A cornerstone of geriatrics, and one of the earliest works in the US devoted to the subject. Fine/Mint in original cloth, first owner's name in pen and ink on TP..
Offered for US$ 185.00 by: Zita Books - Book number: 000074
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