Herman BOERHAAVE, Julien Offray de LA METTRIE (Trad.)
Aphorismes sur la connoissance et la cure des maladies, traduits en François par ***. - Traité du vertige, avec la description d'une catalepsie hystérique, & une lettre à Monsieur Astruc, dans laquelle on répond à la critique qu'il a faite d'une dissertation de l'auteur sur les maladies vénériennes[Aphorisms on the Knowledge and Treatment of Diseases, translated into French by ***. — A Treatise on Vertigo, with the Description of a Hysterical Catalepsy, and a Letter to Monsieur Astruc, in which Response is Made to the Criticism He Offered of a Dissertation by the Author on Venereal Diseases
veuve de P. A. Garnier|Rennes 1738|10.2 x 16.4 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
Very rare first edition of this french translation of Boerhaave’s Aphorismi (1709), issued by La Mettrie in the very year of the author’s death (most bibliographies record only the 1739 edition), (cf. Wellcome II, 185).
Contemporary half brown sheepskin with corners, spine with four raised bands ruled in blind, lacking title label, minor losses at the headcaps and rubbing to the spine, red speckled edges, period binding restored.
A collection of precepts concerning diagnosis and therapy.
La Mettrie was a pupil of Boerhaave at Leiden, which accounts for the lasting interest he showed throughout his life in the writings of the Dutch physician.
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