PASCAL, JEAN. La Nouvelle Découverte, et les admirables Effets des Fermens dans le Corps humain. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. [24], 334, [2] pages, including final blank. 12mo, 148x86 mm, contemporary sheep gilt, worn, spine ends chipped, front joint cracked, cords intact; contents generally clean. 18th-century armorial bookplate of Richard de Ruffey. Paris: Edmé Couterot, 1681
first edition. "The French physician and iatrochemist Pascal . . . tended to account for bodily changes by fermentation processes, and . . . emphasized a knowledge of acids and alkalies in treating bodily systems"--Neville II, 271. Krivatsy 8632.
