Author: JANIN de COMBE-BLANCHE, J.
Title: Mémoires et Observations anatomiques, physiologiques ey physiques sur l'oeil, et sur les maldies qui affectent cet organe; Avec un précis des opérations & des remedes qu'on doit pratiquer pour les guérir.
Description: Lyon, Paris, Chez les freres Perisse, Libraires, rue Merciere; Chez P.F.Didot, le jeune, quai des Augustins, 1772. 4to.Small woodc. floral vign. on title, engr. vign. on n4 recto ['P.Duffoi? sc' meas. appr. ... x .. cm], numer. small woodc. head- and tailpieces. Contemp. full mottl. clf., spine and covers w. elaborate floral gilttooling, inside dentelles. (Upper outer hinges weakening / splitting; chips to the leather of the hinges. [n4, b8,c8, A-Z8, Aa-Gg8]. (XL, 474, V, I (blank) pp.). (Small corner torn from blank lower righthand corner L3). (All edges gilt.). (Bookplate on upper free endp. 'Denis I. Duveen'). (Owner's inscr. in ink on verso upper free endp. scratched out 'Monsieur ....'). First edition. From the library of Denis Duveen. Becker coll. item 208: 'The 18th c. was a period of significant scientific advances in ophthalmology and the heyday of ophthalmic quackery. ...Daviel ... Taylor... men such as Jean Janin who had the ability and inclination to move in and out of these two worlds of medical respectibility and quackery. Janin, the charlatan, appears in the boastful advertisements... However, he also published this valuable collection of memoirs, which shows him to have been both a skilled surgeon and a careful observer. According to Hirsch, this book contains an acocount of the first experiments with glasses of complementary colors before both eyes. In the final section (pp. 429 - 432) Janin gives the first published account of hypermetropia.': Hirsch vol. III, p. 418: '... in diesem Werke finden sich die ersten Versuche mit zwei complementär gefärbten Gläser vor beiden Augen'... 'Die Arbeieten Janin's tragen alle den Stempel gründlicher anatomischer und physiologischer Bildung ihres Verfassers': Hirschberg ¶ 378 (pp. 84 - 91): 'Sein Hauptwerk ['dieses'] wird von Haller ... als ausgezeichnet gerühmt; ...': Waller, 5116: Wellcome vol. III, 345: Some binding imperf. but a very good copy of the first edition. Ex Bibliotheca Duveen.

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