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Dissertation sur les Fivres pernicieuses, ou Ataxiques intermittentes. Prsente et soutenue l'Ecole de Mdecine de Paris, le 28 Brumaire an VIII de la Rpublique franaise... Seconde dition.
Paris, Richard, Caille et Ravier, An X (1801). xxviii, 291, [i, blank] pp. 8vo (12,5 x 20 cm.). Contempoarary half calf, spine gilt decorated and gilt lettered on orange morocco label (some slight rubbings; 2 small traces of rodent bites), marbled boards. With 5 folded engraved plates of which 4 very engravings of cinchona species.
The second, much expanded, edition of Alibert's thesis, the founder of the modern French school of dermatology. A 5th. edition was published in 1819. Bayle/Thilay II, 935. "La Thse inaugurale d'Alibert sur les 'Fivres intermittentes perniceuses' eur un grand retentissement. Revue et complte, elle obtint jusqu'a cinq ditions successives' (Dechambre). The first edition was published in 1800 and has only 159 pages and 1 plate.
