Paris: Asselin et Cie, 1879, kl. -4to, 2 ff. (faux-titre + titre) + XXIV + 986 p. + 2 planches, reliure en d.-cuir d’époque, couvertures de la brochure orig. cons., bon exemplaire.
“Laennecs invention of the stetoscope was the most important advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's introduction of percussion in 1761 and Roentgen's discovery of X-rays in 1895” (Eimas).Hirsch III/645-6; Dic. Encycl. Sciences Médicales LIII/120-121; Médecins célèbres 160-3; cf. Garrison-M. 2673 (l'éd. orig. de 1819, avec commentaire importante sur la 2e éd.); Waller 5493; Wellcome III/429; Osler 1319; the Norman and Hardin (Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates) The famous second edition (1826) here in a new printing of 1879. Image disp.
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