Ambroise TARDIEU
Mémoire sur les modifications physiques et chimiques que détermine dans certaines parties du corps l'exercice des diverses professions, pour servir à la recherche médico-légale de l'identité[Memoir on the Physical and Chemical Changes Produced in Certain Parts of the Body by the Practice of Various Occupations, as an Aid to the Medico-Legal Determination of Identity]
Germer Baillère|Paris • London • Madrid 1849|12.7 x 21 cm|Relié
First edition, printed in a small number of copies, of this offprint from the Annales d'Hygiène publique et de médecine Légale, 1849, vol. XLII.
Modern Bradel binding in marbled-paper-covered boards, smooth spine without lettering.
Only three copies recorded in the CCF.
This memoir offers a detailed study of the physical characteristics associated with various occupations: laundresses, hairdressers, writers, prostitutes, bookbinders, dyers, etc.
Son of the draughtsman and cartographer Ambroise Tardieu, Auguste-Ambroise Tardieu (1818-1879) was one of the founders of forensic medicine; he published numerous monographs on medical questions relating to...
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