‎Louis P.Ch.A‎
‎Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur la Phthisie‎

‎Recherches anatomico-pathologiques sur la phthisie précédées du rapport fait à l'Académie Royale de médecine par MM; Bourdois, Royer-Collard et Chomel -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- BON EXEMPLAIRE NON ROGNE DANS SA BROCHURE IMPRIMEE D'ORIGINE‎

‎P., Gabon, 1825, un volume in 8 broché couverture imprimée (brochure imprimée de l'époque), (petits manques de papier sans gravité au dos et en bordure d'un plat), 24pp., 16pp., 560pp.‎

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE ---- BON EXEMPLAIRE NON ROGNE DANS SA BROCHURE IMPRIMEE D'ORIGINE ---- GARRISON N° 3221 ---- Heirs of Hippocrates N° 1438 : "This work, which established Louis' reputation as clinician, gives a numerical study of extrapulmonary lesions based on 358 dissections and 1960 clinical cases" ---- "The arbitrary doctrines of Broussais were overthrown by P.C.A. Louis, the founder of medical statistics. Louis thought that the fallacies of an a priori theory, like that of Broussais, can easily be brought out and thrown into relief by good statistics and that statistics can sometimes be used as an instrument of precision in cases where proper experimental methods are wanting. To establish his own results, Louis made over 5000 postmortems investigations. He was the first, after Floyer, to use the watch in timing the pulse. Through his american pupils, Holmes, Gerhard, the Jacksons, the Shattucks and others, he exerted a powerful influence upon the advancement of medical science in the Eastern United States. The strong stand which Louis took in favor of facts and figures, as against the sterile theorizing of the past, appealed especially to the keen, practical common sense of these northern physicians". (Garrison "History of Medicine" pp. 410/411)**3379/C3‎