Consultations sur une Naissance tardive, pour servir de response 1. A deux Ecrits de M. le Bas, Chirurgien de Paris; l'un intitulé: Question importante, l'autre: Nouvelles Observations; 2. A une Consultation de M. Bertin; 3. A une autre de M. Petit, tous deux de l'Académie Royale des Sciences & Docteurs-Régents de la Faculté de la Médicine de Paris. [vignette]
by (BOUVART, Michel-Philippe, 1711-1787)
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Paris,: Jean-Thomas Herissant, Imprimeur du Roi,, 1765.. iv, [5]-134, [ii blank], 7, [i blank] pp. Small 8vo (12,5 x 19,5 cm.). Finely rebound in half marbled calf (antique style), spine gilt lettered on red morocco label, marbled boards and new endpapers, red edges. A fine copy of this rare obstetrical polemic. The last 7 pages are: "Mémoire a consulter Pour les Héritiers de la Veuve de Charles...". "Bouvart, physician and doctor regent of the faculty of Paris, and associate-veteran of the Academy of Science, was born a Chartres. Many of his ancestors having been physicians, he determined on the same profession, which he practised at Paris with so much success that no other physician was more consulted; yet this did not prevent him being jealous of Tronchin, Bordeu, and some others, of whom he spoke very illiberally, but he was a man otherwise of great kindness and benevolence. One anecdote is recorded as characteristic. A banker, who had experienced some heavy losses, was taken ill, and Bouvart, who was called in, suspected that his weighed on his mind, but could not obtain the secret from him. The banker's wife, however, was more communicative, and told him that her husband had a payment of twenty thousand livres to make very shortly, for which he was unprovided. Bou
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- Consultations sur une Naissance tardive, pour servir de response 1. A deux Ecrits de M. le Bas, Chirurgien de Paris; l'un intitulé: Question importante, l'autre: Nouvelles Observations; 2. A une Consultation de M. Bertin; 3. A une autre de M. Petit, tous deux de l'Académie Royale des Sciences & Docteurs-Régents de la Faculté de la Médicine de Paris. [vignette]
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- gynaecology obstetrics polemics medical jurisprudence gynecology gynecologie obstetrie verloskunde delayed birth
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Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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