LAENNEC, R. T. H. De L'Auscultation Mediate LAENNEC, R[éné] T[héophile] H[yacinthe]. De L'Auscultation Mediate ou Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur, Fondé Principalement sur ce Nouveau Moyen d'Exploration. Paris: J. A. Brosson et J. S. Chaude, 1819. Two volumes. Octavo, 20th-century half red straight-grain morocco, gilt-and blind-tooled spines, marbled boards. $4000. First edition, first state, of Laennec's revolutionary study of diseases of the thoracic organs. In this work, Laennec "provided the first adequate method for diagnosing diseases of the thorax. Matthew Baillie, the leading British physician of the time, wrote to him that his book was 'the fullest and most able account of the diseased appearances of the Heart and Lungs which has yet been published'" (Lilly, 173). With four engraved double-page anatomical plates depicting Laennec's newly invented stethoscope (originally a roll of stiff paper, here a short wooden tube), pathologic conditions of the lung, and deformity of the chest from chronic latent pleurisy. Laennec's invention of the stethoscope "represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Rontgen's discovery of x-rays" (Norman 1253). An expert pathologist, Laennec was considered "perhaps the greatest clinician of his time," and his De L'Auscultation "the foundation stone of modern knowledge of diseases of the chest" (Garrison-Morton 3219, see also 2673). First state with a*2 the original leaf, not a cancel. "P. J. Bishop, Laennec's bibliographer, states that 'the first edition... was published on 15 August 1819, in a first printing of 2100 copies, with a second impression of 1500': however, he does not indicate whether these printings correspond to the states with and without the original leaf a*2" (Norman 1253). Osler 1318. First 11 leaves in Volume I with very minor paper restoration along some edges and corners only. Text generally quite clean. A handsome copy of this rare medical classic. Price: USD 4,000.00 other currencies   order no. 29760    inquire

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