| | A Paris, Chez Croullebois, 1811, in-8 (22,6 x 14 cm. = 8,90 x 5.51 inches), lxv - 521 pp., contemporary interim full pink paper binding (some little wears on the paper of the joints and some brownings). First edition of this significant and rare treatise of the French physician François-Joseph Double (born in the Verdun-on-Garonne, in 1776 and died in Paris in 1842) who was with Portal, founder of the Academy of medicine. It is with this dissertation on the croup that he obtains the first honourable mention when in 1811 he took part to the competitive examination of European physicians initiated by Napoleon. Foxings. Not in Wellcome; Garrison-Morton 2672.2 (another treatise) .
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