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LANNEC, Ren Thophile Hyacinthe (1781-1826). Propositions sur la doctrine d'Hippocrate, rlativement la mdecine-pratique. Paris: Didot jeune for Mquignon l'ane, an XII (1804).
4o (235 x 184 mm). 20 leaves, the last blank. Modern quarter morocco gilt (very slight scuffing at head and tail of spine).
FIRST EDITION of Lannec's thesis for admission to the Socit de l'cole de Mdecine in Paris, presented in July 1804; he was immediately accepted. In it Lannec demonstrates that Hippocrates made no nosological distinction between different types of fevers, that Hippocrates' main concern was prognosis rather than diagnosis, and that one must differentiate between the Hippocratic method -- which he advocates -- and the Hippocratic doctrine, which needs to be constantly revised on the basis of new discoveries. Lannec concludes that while the Hippocratic view of fevers may serve as a useful guideline for treatment, it needs to be supplemented by careful diagnosis, and he recommends that all young physicians combine the traditional study of the Hippocratic corpus with the study of nosology, "in which modern [science] is greatly superior". Norman 1251.
[With:]
LANNEC. Mmoire sur les vers vsiculaires, et principalement sur ceux qui se trouvent dans le corps humain; lu la sance du 26 pluviose an XII (1804) [de la Socit de la Facult de Mdecine de Paris]. [Paris, 1809?].
4o (269 x 211 mm). 89 leaves. Drop title. 4 engraved plates after the author's drawings. (Light foxing, occasional browning.) Later plain wrappers, original pastepaper front wrapper preserved, uncut; cloth folding case. Provenance: illegible 19th-century inkstamp; Friedrich-Wilhelm University Library, Berlin (later 19th-century inkstamp and sold stamp on first page).
First Edition(?). Lannec read this memoir on bladder worms, a subject that he had begun investigating while still in medical school, to the Socit de l'cole de Mdecine in Feburary 1804. According to the Wellcome catalogue, the present monograph was published before the journal article, which appeared in Volume I of the Mmoires de la Socit de la Facult de Mdecine, 1809. RARE. Wellcome III, p. 429. (2)
4o (235 x 184 mm). 20 leaves, the last blank. Modern quarter morocco gilt (very slight scuffing at head and tail of spine).
FIRST EDITION of Lannec's thesis for admission to the Socit de l'cole de Mdecine in Paris, presented in July 1804; he was immediately accepted. In it Lannec demonstrates that Hippocrates made no nosological distinction between different types of fevers, that Hippocrates' main concern was prognosis rather than diagnosis, and that one must differentiate between the Hippocratic method -- which he advocates -- and the Hippocratic doctrine, which needs to be constantly revised on the basis of new discoveries. Lannec concludes that while the Hippocratic view of fevers may serve as a useful guideline for treatment, it needs to be supplemented by careful diagnosis, and he recommends that all young physicians combine the traditional study of the Hippocratic corpus with the study of nosology, "in which modern [science] is greatly superior". Norman 1251.
[With:]
LANNEC. Mmoire sur les vers vsiculaires, et principalement sur ceux qui se trouvent dans le corps humain; lu la sance du 26 pluviose an XII (1804) [de la Socit de la Facult de Mdecine de Paris]. [Paris, 1809?].
4o (269 x 211 mm). 89 leaves. Drop title. 4 engraved plates after the author's drawings. (Light foxing, occasional browning.) Later plain wrappers, original pastepaper front wrapper preserved, uncut; cloth folding case. Provenance: illegible 19th-century inkstamp; Friedrich-Wilhelm University Library, Berlin (later 19th-century inkstamp and sold stamp on first page).
First Edition(?). Lannec read this memoir on bladder worms, a subject that he had begun investigating while still in medical school, to the Socit de l'cole de Mdecine in Feburary 1804. According to the Wellcome catalogue, the present monograph was published before the journal article, which appeared in Volume I of the Mmoires de la Socit de la Facult de Mdecine, 1809. RARE. Wellcome III, p. 429. (2)