May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 187

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
BAYLE, GASPARD-LAURENT. Recherches sur la Phthisie Pulmonaire. xxiv, 439 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 212x140 mm, original paste-paper wrappers with paper lettering piece, joints cracked, binding still sound; contents clean; uncut; linen folding case. Paris: Gabon, 1810

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first edition. "The beginning of the modern clinical conception of tuberculosis. Bayle gave the best description to date of the varieties of tuberculosis. He was first to use the term 'miliary' to describe small tubercles and first to speak of tuberculous diathesis"--Garrison-Morton 2322. Heirs of Hippocrates 1291.