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AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD. Nouvelle Méthode pour reconnaître les Maladies Internes de la Poitrine. Latin text with French translation and commentary by jean-nicolas corvisart des marets. Half-title; errata leaf and publisher's 4-page catalogue at end. 8vo, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 red morocco, spine worn; uncut. Signature on half-title of William Sydney Thayer, M.D., dated Baltimore, 1917. Paris, 1808
first edition of this translation of Auenbrugger's 1761 Inventum novum. The publication of Corvisart's version led to the general recognition of the value of thoracic percussion as a diagnostic measure. Heirs of Hippocrates 955; Garrison-Morton 2672 note.
