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LAËNNEC, RENE THÉOPHILE HYACINTHE. De l'auscultation médiate ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fondé principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d'exploration. Paris: J.-A. Brosson and J.-S. Chaudé 1819.
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LAËNNEC, RENE THÉOPHILE HYACINTHE. De l'auscultation médiate ou traité du diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur, fondé principalement sur ce nouveau moyen d'exploration. Paris: J.-A. Brosson and J.-S. Chaudé 1819.
2 vols., 8vo, 201 x 127mm. (7 15/16 x 5in.), nineteenth-century quarter sheep gilt and marbled boards, 14/7 and 14/8 of vol. 1 with upper outer blank corner lost catching two page numerals, lacks half-title to vol. 2, sporadic spotting and some browning, plate numerals cropped.
FIRST EDITION, first state with the cancelland [a2] in vol. 1, half-title in vol. 1 only, 4 folding engraved plates.
Dibner Heralds of Science 129; Garrison and Morton 2673, 3219 and 3614; Norman 1253; PMM 280.
"The stethoscope is as familiar a symbol of the modern physician as was the urine glass of his medieval predecessor....One day in 1816, observing some children tapping a hollow wooden log at one end and listening to the transmitted and sound at the other, Laënnec conceived the idea of the stethoscope."--Printing and the Mind of Man. "Laennec's invention...represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's discovery of x-rays."--Norman. (2)
2 vols., 8vo, 201 x 127mm. (7 15/16 x 5in.), nineteenth-century quarter sheep gilt and marbled boards, 14/7 and 14/8 of vol. 1 with upper outer blank corner lost catching two page numerals, lacks half-title to vol. 2, sporadic spotting and some browning, plate numerals cropped.
FIRST EDITION, first state with the cancelland [a2] in vol. 1, half-title in vol. 1 only, 4 folding engraved plates.
Dibner Heralds of Science 129; Garrison and Morton 2673, 3219 and 3614; Norman 1253; PMM 280.
"The stethoscope is as familiar a symbol of the modern physician as was the urine glass of his medieval predecessor....One day in 1816, observing some children tapping a hollow wooden log at one end and listening to the transmitted and sound at the other, Laënnec conceived the idea of the stethoscope."--Printing and the Mind of Man. "Laennec's invention...represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's discovery of x-rays."--Norman. (2)