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BOERHAAVE, Herman / Walter HARRIS

Recueil de deux anciens ouvrages relatifs à la Santé des Enfans, Traduits en François, Savoir: Traité des Maladies aigues, par HARRIS, Médecin Anglois. Traité des Maladies en général, par BOERHAAVE, commentée par Van-SWIETEN
Paris
Nyon l'aîné
1780
€140 - €200

"2 parts in 1 vol. in-8vo, [ii], 277, [ix]; xi, [i, blank], 386 pp, finely bound in contemporary full marbled calf, spine with 5 raised bands, in compartments gilt tooled with floral motives, marbled end-papers, edges red"

"Not in Lindeboom. Ref. Garrison & Morton, 6321: ""Harris (1647-1732) was physician to King William & Queen Mary. His book served for nearly a century as a standard work on pediatrics. He anticipated the modern treatment of tetany by using calcium salts in infantile convulsions"""