Guillaume DUPUYTREN

Autograph prescription signed by Dupuytren, written in black ink on the recto of a sheet of white paper.
Fold marks inherent to postal transmission.
Prescription recommending "absolute bed rest, every fortnight a moxa around the sick knee. These moxas must be the width of a 3-franc coin. They must not be maintained but left to themselves and be replaced by others as they dry out. A full bath in hot salted water, every 3 or 4 days for one hour's duration. Habitation in airy dry places exposed to the south."
Moxibustion, an ancient method of Chinese and Japanese medicine, consists of warming - using moxas (from Japanese mogusa, a variety of mugwort) - an acupuncture point and making heat penetrate through the skin.

Second edition with some parts of the text in first edition, being entirely revised.
Half-caramel sheep bindings, smooth spines faded and decorated with gilt tools and fillets showing traces of rubbing, rubbed headcaps some with small lacks, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary bindings.
Some light foxing, otherwise handsome interior condition.