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LAENNEC, RENÉ-THÉOPHILE-HYACINTHE. De l'Auscultation Médiate; ou, Traité du Diagnostic des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur. 4 folding engraved plates with 8 subjects in Volume 1. [4], [vii]-xlviii, 456, [8]; xvi, 472 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 203x125 mm, contemporary 1/4 sheep gilt, spines faded; text toned with scattered foxing, plates clean, second plate trimmed in lower margin partly entering plate number, third plate unevenly slit vertically in center without image loss and reinforced on verso, fourth plate partly separated at fold. Paris: J.-A. Brosson & J.-S. Chaudé, 1819
first edition; first state of a2 in Volume 1. "Laennec's invention of the stethoscope, which he announced in his Treatise on mediate auscultation, provided the first adequate method of diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbrugger's percussion and Röntgen's X-rays"--Norman 1253. Garrison-Morton 2673; PMM 280.
