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

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 criminality, some pioneering, others profoundly mistaken.

Signed autograph presentation inscription by Auguste-Ambroise Tardieu on the half-title.