Louis, Researches on the Effects of Bloodletting, 1836 (first English)

Researches on the Effects of Bloodletting in some Inflammatory Diseases, and on the Influence of Tartarized Antimony and Vesication in Pneumonitis. By P. Ch. A. Louis, Physician of the Hospital la Pitie, perpetual President of the Medical Society of Observation, Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Paris, Corresponding Member of the Medical Society of Marseilles, of the Imperial Medico-Chirurgical Society of St. Petersburg and of the Medical Society of Edinburgh; Member of the Legion of Honor. Translated by C. G. Putnam, M. D. With Preface and Appendix by James Jackson, M. D. Physician of the Massachusetts General Hosptial. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, & Company. 1836. 
 
Early pebbled green boards, later respined with paper title label. Smudges and scuffs of boards. Joints/hinges strong. Toning and foxing of end papers, but remainder of text block bright. Ample margins. Early illegile ink owner’s inscription on front pastedown. Small errata slip bound in. Binding tight. 
 
First edition is Garrison Morton 1698: 
“LOUIS, Pierre Charles Alexandre (1787 - 1872) Recherches sur les effets de la saignée dans quelques maladies inflammatoires, et sur l’action de l’émétique et des vésicatoires dans la pneumonie. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1835. Louis refuted Broussais’s system of medicine, his “médicine physiologique.  Louis was instrumental in establishing medicine as an exact science by the introduction of the numerical or statistical method.” 
 
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