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LEOPOLD AUENBRUGGER (1722-1809)
Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi. Vienna: Johann Thomas Trattner, 1761. 8° (197 x 107mm). Woodcut title device, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary Austrian polished calf gilt, covers with border of floreate and floral tools within double fillet, spine in seven uniformly decorated compartments with raised bands, no lettering, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small chip in headcap). Provenance: Dr. Gebhard [...] (indistinct signature on title).
'THE FIRST ADVANCE IN PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS SINCE THE TIME OF HIPPOCRATES' (GROLIER). AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper and probably bound for presentation. 'Second issue' with errata on the last page, though more accurately perhaps a variant state of the last sheet rather than a distinct issue (in the 'first issue' the last page is blank). Whereas in most copies the paper is of poor quality, unwatermarked, and with a text block 5mm. thick, this copy is printed on fine and thick paper watermarked T. Villeary, with a text block 7mm. thick. The strong likelihood is that Auenbrugger presented this to a fellow doctor (although not necessarily the 'Dr. Gebhard' who has signed the title-page). Auenbrugger was equipped to understand the value of percussion in physical examination by his boyhood knowledge of how to tap a wine barrel in order to gauge its fullness, and by his considerable gift for music (he wrote the libretto for a comic opera by Salieri). By applying his listening skills to the human chest, the Viennese physician gradually discovered how to diagnose diseases of the heart and lungs. It became clear that a dull sound over the heart was an indication of disease, and that the condition of lung tissue could be ascertained by placing the hand on the chest and noticing the vibration or fremitus produced by the voice and the breath. Years of patient research, involving post-mortem dissections and experiments on cadavers, finally led him to publish this small book providing the first modern diagnostic tool. Little known until the publication of Corvisart's enlarged French edition of 1808, which inspired Laennec to develop the stethoscope, Auenbrugger's work is rare on the market today, particularly in so fine a copy. NLM/Blake p. 23; Garrison-Morton 2672; Grolier Medicine 45; Eimas Heirs 954; Lilly p. 127; Norman 81.
Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi. Vienna: Johann Thomas Trattner, 1761. 8° (197 x 107mm). Woodcut title device, woodcut headpieces and initials. Contemporary Austrian polished calf gilt, covers with border of floreate and floral tools within double fillet, spine in seven uniformly decorated compartments with raised bands, no lettering, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (small chip in headcap). Provenance: Dr. Gebhard [...] (indistinct signature on title).
'THE FIRST ADVANCE IN PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS SINCE THE TIME OF HIPPOCRATES' (GROLIER). AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, printed on thick paper and probably bound for presentation. 'Second issue' with errata on the last page, though more accurately perhaps a variant state of the last sheet rather than a distinct issue (in the 'first issue' the last page is blank). Whereas in most copies the paper is of poor quality, unwatermarked, and with a text block 5mm. thick, this copy is printed on fine and thick paper watermarked T. Villeary, with a text block 7mm. thick. The strong likelihood is that Auenbrugger presented this to a fellow doctor (although not necessarily the 'Dr. Gebhard' who has signed the title-page). Auenbrugger was equipped to understand the value of percussion in physical examination by his boyhood knowledge of how to tap a wine barrel in order to gauge its fullness, and by his considerable gift for music (he wrote the libretto for a comic opera by Salieri). By applying his listening skills to the human chest, the Viennese physician gradually discovered how to diagnose diseases of the heart and lungs. It became clear that a dull sound over the heart was an indication of disease, and that the condition of lung tissue could be ascertained by placing the hand on the chest and noticing the vibration or fremitus produced by the voice and the breath. Years of patient research, involving post-mortem dissections and experiments on cadavers, finally led him to publish this small book providing the first modern diagnostic tool. Little known until the publication of Corvisart's enlarged French edition of 1808, which inspired Laennec to develop the stethoscope, Auenbrugger's work is rare on the market today, particularly in so fine a copy. NLM/Blake p. 23; Garrison-Morton 2672; Grolier Medicine 45; Eimas Heirs 954; Lilly p. 127; Norman 81.
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