Suite des expériences faites avec l'eau médicinale

First edition of the second work in a set of four, published by a royal army officer between 1783 and 1788, focusing on a remedy claimed to cure numerous ailments. The remedy was prepared from a plant whose name the author deliberately withheld.

Bound in contemporary marbled paper over flexible cardboard, with wear and losses to the spine, labels pasted on the spine, and minor paper losses to the boards.

Printed stamps on some leaves.

The substance was both widely condemned as an excessively harsh purgative and praised—even by practitioners—for its apparent relief to gout sufferers.

An analysis conducted by Cadet and Parmentier failed to identify the plant used in its composition.

Born in Sedan in 1714, Nicolas Husson retired from military service in 1743 and devoted himself to botanical and medical research. It is said he used his remedy daily; in any case, it did him no harm, as he lived to the age of ninety-nine, dying in 1813.