Pierre-Jean-Claude MAUDUYT
Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité, et observations sur les effets qu'elles ont produits
Imprimerie Nationale|à Paris 1784|12 x 19.70 cm|relié
First edition, illustrated with 2 folding plates on strong paper. The separately paginated section, Précis de journaux, bears the date 1786 in its colophon.
Full marbled and glazed brown calf binding. Decorated raised spine. Red morocco title label. 2 corners slightly bumped. From page 96 to the end, pale yellow dampstains to margins and on the first pages of the separately paginated section, affecting the entire page, but without real consequence. Good copy.
This surprising memoir traces all the curative applications of electricity on man: rheumatism, deafness, toothache, ophthalmia, paralysis, epilepsy. Case descriptions and
€550