Mémoire sur l'hydrocéphale (hydropisie du cerveau), qui a remporté le prix au jugement de l'Académie de Dijon, le 4 juillet 1818[Memoir on Hydrocephalus (Dropsy of the Brain), Which Won the Prize Awarded by the Academy of Dijon on 4 July 1818]
Sestié et fils|Geneva 1820|13.3 x 21 cm|Broché
New edition.
Not in Wellcome.
Only two copies recorded in the CCFr (BIUM and Bordeaux).
The Genevan physician Jacques-André Matthey (1779-1842) studied medicine in Paris; upon his return to Switzerland, he practised at the Hôpital général from 1805 to 1814 before being appointed medical inspector for Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.
Pinel's influence on his research was considerable; he is credited with coining the concept of kleptomania, which he originally termed "clopémanie".
Presentation inscription by Jacques-André Matthey at the head of the half-title page to Dr Jean-Denis Long (1776- ?), of Die, a local scholar whose collections, subsequently enlarged...
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