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LAËNNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe de. De l'auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. Paris: J.-A. Brosson et J.-S. Chaudé, 1819.
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LAËNNEC, René Théophile Hyacinthe de. De l'auscultation médiate, ou traité du diagnostic et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. Paris: J.-A. Brosson et J.-S. Chaudé, 1819.
2 vols., 8o. Half-titles. 4 folding engraved plates, the 3rd by Ambroise Tardieu. (First 11 leaves in volume I, including half-title and title, with narrow area of marginal restoration at extreme upper margin, the first 3 leaves with similar restoration to lower fore-corner, occasional light foxing.) Later red quarter-calf, marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with a*2 uncancelled. Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope, which is here recounted, provided the first adequate method for diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and "represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's discovery of x-rays" (Norman). The four folding plates illustrate Laënnec's stethoscope, pathologic conditions of the lung and deformity of the chest from chronic latent pleurisy. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2673, 3219, 3614; Grolier Medicine 57; Norman 1254. (2)
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FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE, with a*2 uncancelled. Laënnec's invention of the stethoscope, which is here recounted, provided the first adequate method for diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and "represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's discovery of x-rays" (Norman). The four folding plates illustrate Laënnec's stethoscope, pathologic conditions of the lung and deformity of the chest from chronic latent pleurisy. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2673, 3219, 3614; Grolier Medicine 57; Norman 1254. (2)