Author: FOURNET, J.
Title: Recherches cliniques sur l'auscultation des organes respiratoires et sur la première période de la phthisie pulmonaire, faites dans la service de... Andral.
Description: Paris, Montpellier, J.-S. Chaudé a.O., 1839. 2 vols.in 1. W.1 pl., 1 fold.table and 1 pl. in the text. Contemp.green, crushed hlf.mor., spine gilt. (Edges of covers some rubb; upper cover 3 small indentations to edge of board.). (XX, VIII, 1029, I pp.). (Last quires light even browning.). Clinical researches on auscultation of the respiratory organs and on the first stage of phthisis pulmonalis. Mettler 426: "The most authoritative work on pulmonary tuberculosis, during the first third of the 19th century, was Laennec's treatise, [De L'auscultation médiate, 1819 1st ed.] .... The most serious shortcoming of this publication was its failure to set forth, clearly and unmistakably, the early clinical signs and symptoms of the disease... The first book which met with any measure of success in this respect was J. Fournet's.... 'Recherches cliniques'....": Wellcome III, 48: Not in Waller: Comp. Dawson cat. 91, item 2453 (1st engl. ed. 1841):

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