Author: RICORD, PH.- FOURNIER [Ed.].-
Title: Leçons sur le chancre ... rédigées et publiées par A. Fournier, ... suivies de notes et pièces justificatives, etc.
Description: Paris, A.Delahaye, 1858. Very nice original gray blue pr. wr. (sl. spotted). (351 pp.). (Uncut.). First edition. Hirsch vol. IV, pp. 806/7: Kelly/Burrage, p. 1037: 'Ricord, born in in Baltimore, is one of the greatest authorities on syphilis, and divided it into three stages... 'Ricord's chancre': Comp. G&M 2381 and 5202: The fifth period in literature on syphilis begins, according to Proksch, with Ricord. For many years he was known at Paris as 'the Great American Doctor' (Kelly & Burrage).: Comp. for Fournier, G&M 2393, 2395, 4782 and 4800:

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