Author: TISSOT, (Samuel A.A.D.) (1728-1797):
Title: Lettere mediche scritte a varj amici. Traduzion dal francese. Edizione 2a, corretta, e revista. Relié ens. avec: TISSOT, (Samuel A.A.D.): Dissertatione intorno le febbri biliose, osia Storia dell' epidemia bibliosa di Losanna ne' Svizzeri dell' anno 1755. Tradotta dall' idioma Latino in Italiano, medico fisico Vicentino.
Description: Napoli, Gaetano Castellano, 1771/1772, pt. in-8vo, 2 ff. + 236 p.; 5 ff. + 260 p. + 2 ff., très lég. rousseurs, reliure en vélin, pièce de titre au dos, tranches jaspées rouge, trait d'encre sur la partie du 2e ouvrage (latéral). ¶ 1) The second Italian edition of the first work, containing two letters by the famous Swiss medical doctor Tissot, one addressed to Dr. Johann Georg Zimmerman, with respect to the epidemy at the time, the other to Dr. Hirzel, with respect to some critics pronounced by Dr. de Haen. / 2) First Italian edition of Tissot's essay on bilious fevers; another edition appeared the same year in Venice. In this work he recounts the history of an epidemic at Lausanne in 1755, including the etiologym symptoms, treatment, and prognosis of the fever. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Blake 453 and 452; Hirsch V/594-95; DESM XCVI/611; Olivier, Médecine et Santé dans le Pays de Vaud au XVIIIe siècle II/1060-1062; DHBS VI/618.

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