AUENBRUGGER LEOPOLD Rozière de la Chassagne [ ] Manuel des

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(AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD.) Rozière de la Chassagne, [-]. Manuel des Pulmoniques; ou, Traité Complet des Maladies de la Poitrine . . . On y a joint une nouvelle Méthode de reconnoître ces mêmes Maladies par la Percussion du Thorax, traduite du Latin d'Auenbrugger. 12, 319, [1]; [2], 4, 60 [i. e., 62] pages. 12mo, 163x95 mm, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, lettering piece off; marginal browning on first and last few leaves, light dampstain in upper margins toward beginning. Paris: Humaire, 1770

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first edition of Rozière's treatise on pulmonary diseases, containing the first edition in french of Auenbrugger's 1761 Inventum novum, first describing thoracic percussion. Neither the original version in Latin nor Rozière's translation drew much notice, and Auenbrugger's discovery was largely ignored until publication of Corvisart's version in 1808. Norman 82.