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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. xxiii, [1], 440, [2], 4 pages, including half-title, errata leaf, and publisher's 4-page catalogue at end. 8vo, 214x132 mm, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 red morocco, spine heavily worn, front cover detached; scattered light foxing; uncut. Signature on half-title of William Sydney Thayer, M.D., dated Baltimore, 1917. Paris: Méquignon-Marvis, 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.
