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SAINT-YVES, Charles de

Nouveau traité des maladies des yeux. Où l'on expose leur structure, leur usage, les causes de leurs maladies, leurs symptômes, les remedes & les opérations de chirurgie qui conviennent le plus à leur guérison. Avec de nouvelles découvertes
Amsterdam
Arkstee & Merkus
1767
€120 - €180

8°, xl-[8]-276-[17-1 bl.], 25 (of 27) pp., some leaves at the end loosing. Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with 5 raised bands, red edges (rubbed). Later ed. (1st 1722) by the French ophthalmologist Saint-Yves (1667-1731), famous for his treatment of the cataract. Bound with at the end, as it should be, a treatise by Hans Sloane about a very efficacious remedy for the weakness and redness of the eyes, and other diseases of the same organ, without the fold. plate (as often). With an infallible remedy against the bite of the rabid dog

Ref. Cp. BnF. - Wellcome V:9. - Blake 398. Prov. C.L. Bourgeois (deleted ms. entry on title).

Medicine