Title: A Practical Treatise on Venereal Diseases; or, Critical and Experimental Researches on Inoculation, Applied to the Study of These Affections, with a Therapeutical Summary and Special Formulary... . a New Translation from the French.
Description: New York: Published by P. Gordon, 1842. 1842. - Octavo, 9 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in floral decorated dark brown cloth titled in gilt on the spine. The covers are rubbed & stained with wear to the corners and the head & tail of the spine are chipped. [2 pages of recommendations], followed by pages [i] - vi, [1], 8-339, with 5 illustrations in the text. The endpapers are darkened and stained and the bottom front corner of the pages are dampstained. There is some occasional light soiling and foxing throughout with creases to the bottom edge of a few pages. Good.
First American edition. "With a view to present a valuable work to the medical profession in America, the American publisher procured a translation of M. Ricord's Treatise, by Mr. Drummond [Henry Pilkington Drummond, M.D.] which was printed in London, in 1841. But on comparing the translation with the original, it was found that much had been omitted; for instance, some forty or fifty cases, of a highly practical character, and much too on the score of treatment. Hence it has been necessary to revise the entire work; and it will be found that the present translation is, in fact, a new one." - from the Advertisement to the First American Edition. The book includes a "Special Formulary of the Medicaments used in my wards of the Hopital des Veneriens" and a table of contents.
Philippe Ricord (1800-1889) was an American-born French physician who specialized in Venereal diseases. He was renowned for his specialty and received the Montyon prize in 1842.
RARE. Good .
Keywords: MEDICAL; MEDICINE; A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON VENEREAL DISEASES; OR, CRITICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES ON INOCULATION, APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF THESE AFFECTIONS; PHILIPPE RICORD; VENEREAL DISEASE; HENRY PILKINGTON DRUMMOND, M.D.; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; SP
- Book number: 98429
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