Leçons de clinique thérapeutique sur les maladies du système nerveux

Rare first edition.

A pleasing copy.
Contemporary full black cloth, spine gilt-stamped with a floral tool, double gilt fillet at foot of spine, red shagreen lettering-piece, blue paper endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, slightly frayed corners, contemporary binding.
Very rare signed and inscribed copy by Georges Gilles de la Tourette: "A mon cher confrère et ami le Dr Diamantberger. Gilles de La Tourette."

Dr. Mayer Saül Diamantberger was assistant physician at the Rothschild Hospital in the 1890s and regarded as one of the pioneers of rheumatology in France.  

The discoverer of the famous Tourette syndrome gifts to a distinguished rheumatologist his major work on the treatment of nervous disorders, which includes therapies for facial tics, hemiplegia, epilepsy, hysteria, syphilitic myelitis, and morphine addiction, among others.

At the close of the 19th-century, many motor symptoms now studied as part of rheumatology were then attributed to nervous diseases, such as hysteria or neurasthenia. The author and recipient of this volume in fact shared a common field of research — juvenile paralysis and osteo-articular "deformities": Gilles de la Tourette ascribed the majority of them to nervous causes, and writes a chapter on this suject in this book. Dr. Mayer Saül Diamantberger was known for his thesis on similar symptoms, entitled ‎"Du Rhumatisme noueux: polyarthrite déformante chez les enfants"‎ [On Nodular Rheumatism: Deforming Polyarthritis in Children] (1891). 

An exceedingly rare scientific exchange, hitherto unknown to biographers, from a pioneer of neurology to a pioneer of rheumatology.