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Author: Broussais, F.J.
Title: Histoire des Phlegmasies ou Inflammations Chroniques...
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:Gabon & Crochard
Date Published: 1822
Description:

3 volumes. xxviii, 397; 668; 508 pp. (8vo) quarter calf and marbled boards, gilt spines, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Third Edition, corrected and enlarged. 

Although Broussais was the most celebrated French practitioner of his day, he was, according to Castiglioni, "the most sanguinary physician in history". Although he taught the importance of clinical observation, Broussais' rigid attitudes regarding his often erroneous theories hindered more than helped the progress of French medicine. He believed that the basis of all pathology was gastroenteritis and that debilitating treatment was called for in nearly every disease. His most common remedy was the application of leeches to the stomach or the head. The popularity of his methods is evidenced by the fact that during one year, over 35,000,000 leeches were imported into France. See Heirs of Hippocrates, p. 403. Waller 1497a. Wellcome II, p. 248

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Some wear to bindings with rubbing to spines and extremities; early ownership signature of Henri Clermond Lombard, dated 1824, on the half-titles, offsetting to endpapers, scattered light foxing; very good.