A Paris, Chez Mequignon, 1780, in-8, xxix - 402 pp. - 2 ff., contemporary three quater brown morocco (wears on the spineends, joints and corners, us. coiffes and amateur restoration on one joint), spine raised on 5 bands underlined by double gilt fillets, red morocco gilt lettered title label, sprinkled edges.
Original edition of this interessing treatise of the french medical doctor Claude François Duchanoy (Vauvilliers 1742-Paris 1827). Enriched by one plate representing two stills. "An interesting work which is almost entirely devoted to chemistry and its application to the manufacture of "ersatz" mineral waters" (Duveen p. 182). The second part of this volume gives a very complete account of the thermal springs of France. Duchanoy was an early proponent of vaccination and was a notable reformer of the Paris hospitals. Cfr. Wellcome p. 491 ; J. B. Blake p. 128 ; not in Ferguson or Cole.