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LANNEC, Ren Thophile Hyacinthe de. Trait de l'auscultation mdiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. Paris: J. S. Chaud, 1826.
2 volumes, 8o (199 x 128). Half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, with cancel leaves 29/8 and 30/1 in vol. II; 4 folding engraved plates, the 3rd by Ambroise Tardieu. (Occasional light foxing, quire 48 in vol. 2 adhered at gutter, plates 1 and 3 with insignificant small tears at gutters.) Contemporary green calf, covers with blind-tooled and gilt-fillet borders, spines tooled in blind and gilt with lettering-pieces in brown calf, marbled edges (backstrips and extremities rubbed).
Provenance: presentation copy to an unidentified conseiller d'tat (author's inscription on title-p[age of vol. I, recipient's name rendered illegible by inkblot: " Monsieur le Conseiller d'tat Buquet(?) d'...").
PRESENTATION COPY of the second edition, entirely rewritten. "The second edition... is even more important, since it gives not only the various physical signs elicited in the chest, but adds the pathological anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of each disease encountered" (Garrison-Morton 2673). In his preface, Lannec explains that he has entirely changed the order of the text, and that the observations included in the first edition having been since verified "many times over and throughout Europe," he has abandoned the analytical method used in that edition in favor of a synthetic approach. The resulting text was clearer and of more immediate use for physicians: "this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written" (Garrison, History of medicine, p. 412). Osler 1319; Waller 5493; Wellcome III, p. 429; Norman 1255. (2)
2 volumes, 8o (199 x 128). Half-titles, errata leaf at end of vol. II, with cancel leaves 29/8 and 30/1 in vol. II; 4 folding engraved plates, the 3rd by Ambroise Tardieu. (Occasional light foxing, quire 48 in vol. 2 adhered at gutter, plates 1 and 3 with insignificant small tears at gutters.) Contemporary green calf, covers with blind-tooled and gilt-fillet borders, spines tooled in blind and gilt with lettering-pieces in brown calf, marbled edges (backstrips and extremities rubbed).
Provenance: presentation copy to an unidentified conseiller d'tat (author's inscription on title-p[age of vol. I, recipient's name rendered illegible by inkblot: " Monsieur le Conseiller d'tat Buquet(?) d'...").
PRESENTATION COPY of the second edition, entirely rewritten. "The second edition... is even more important, since it gives not only the various physical signs elicited in the chest, but adds the pathological anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of each disease encountered" (Garrison-Morton 2673). In his preface, Lannec explains that he has entirely changed the order of the text, and that the observations included in the first edition having been since verified "many times over and throughout Europe," he has abandoned the analytical method used in that edition in favor of a synthetic approach. The resulting text was clearer and of more immediate use for physicians: "this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written" (Garrison, History of medicine, p. 412). Osler 1319; Waller 5493; Wellcome III, p. 429; Norman 1255. (2)