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75 - MOREAU de JONNÈS (Alexandre). Report to the Higher Health Co…
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MOREAU de JONNÈS (Alexandre). Report to the Higher Health Council on cholera morbus, the pathological characteristics and symptoms of this disease, the curative and hygienic measures employed against it, its mortality rate, its mode of transmission and its outbreaks in Hindustan, East Asia, the Indian Archipelago, Arabia, Syria, Persia, the Russian Empire and Poland. Paris, Cosson’s Printing Works, 1831. In-8, vij-(1 bl.)-356-(1) pp.; fawn half-basane, smooth spine decorated with fillets (contemporary binding). With a large fold-out lithographed map showing the disease’s routes in red. The report traces the history of the first cholera pandemic, from its origins in Asia in 1817 up to the year 1831, when cholera reached Austria and Prussia. [Bound with:] - GAUDET. History of a cholera-like epidemic observed in Dieppe during the summer of 1834. Paris, Everat, [1834] 30-(2 bl.) pp. Offprint of an article published in the *Gazette médicale de Paris*. - ETIENNE (J.-P.). Treatise on cholera morbus. 1 its causes; 2 its symptoms; 3 its treatment. Metz, Ch. Dosquet, 1835. 36 pp. Autograph letter signed by the author to Dr Requin. - MEYNARD (A.). A word to my fellow citizens on cholera. Orange, Raphel the Elder’s Printing Works, undated. (2) ff., 11 pp. Autograph copy signed by the author and addressed to Dr Requin. - MEISSONNIER (Casimir). Considerations on the cholera epidemic in Arles. Avignon, printed by Rastoul, 1835. 23 pp. - MUSSO (V.). Report on the cholera epidemic in Marseille. Apt, printed by Édouard Cartier, March 1835. 24 pp. A rare collection of six texts on cholera, published at the time the pandemic was reaching France. A fine copy. Ex-libris from the library of Dr Requin (1803–1854), a member of the Academy of Medicine.
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 1 of 4 – Nos. 1 to 549
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