[MEDECINE - PERIODIQUE] Gazette de santé [sous-titre à partir du n°3:] ou Analyse de Livres et de Faits nouveaux relatifs aux diverses branches des Sciences naturelles telles que la Chymie, la Botanique, la Médecine, la Chirurgie, &c. . Année 1787 complète en 52 numéros

Complete year for 1787, with 50 issues, of this health journal with continuous pagination (pagination error between nos. 48 and 49).

Contemporary half marbled sheep, smooth spine, bronze sheep lettering-piece, rubbing to the spine, domino-patterned paper boards, a few scuffs to the boards, corners worn and small nicks to the edges, red edges, contemporary binding. 

The journal, founded in 1773 by Jean-Jacques Gardane, doctor-regent of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, would run for 17 years, with one volume per year, except for the years 1773-1774.

Jean-Jacques Gardane distinguished himself in the establishment in Paris of treatment houses for the poor and in the diffusion of fumigation boxes intended to revive the drowned and the asphyxiated of all kinds.

From 1776 onwards the journal would be written “by a society of physicians,” and Pinel was probably among the new editors from the end of 1784.

The journal then played an important bibliographical role; scientific news was carefully reported, but the periodical is especially notable at this stage for its declared fight against charlatanism, and the section devoted to hygiene is particularly well represented; it is not impossible that it was written by Pinel himself (see Roselyne Rey in Dictionnaire des journaux). 

Manuscript annotations in black ink on the verso of the front board.