Trousseau, Clinique Medicale, 1861-62, first ed.

Clinique Medicale de L’Hotel-Dieu de Paris par A. Trousseau Professeur de Clinique Medicale de la Faculte de Medecine de Paris, Medecin de l’Hotel-Dieu, Membre de l’Academie imperiale de medecine, Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur, Grand officier de l’ordre du Lion et du Soleil de Perse, Ex-representant du peuple a l’Assemblee nationale, etc., etc. Tome Premier (and Tome Second, 1862). Paris J.-B. Bailliere et Fils Libraires de L’Academie Imperiale de Medecine, Rue Hauteseuille, 19. Londres, Bailliere, 219, Regent Street. | New-York, Bailliere Brothers, 440, Broadway. Madrid. -- C. Bailly-Bailliere, Calle Del Principe, 11 [Plaza Del Principe Alfonso, 16 on title page of vol 2]. 1861. Traduction et reproduction reservees. 
 
Two volumes in original quarter brown leather with marbled paper over boards, raised bands, and gold text on spines. Mild scuffing and chipping of leather and papers, with some bumped and split corners. Joints all intact and strong, through interior rear hinge of each volume cracking. Marbled end papers. Early notation on verso of ffeps and on half titles. Fine red speckled page edges. Text is clean and bright. Bindings tight throughout. 
 
Vol 1: 772 pages. Vol 2: 841 plus errata on final verso. 
 
Heirs 1635: Armand Trousseau (1801-1867) “As professor of clinical medicine and physician to the Hôtel Dieu, Trousseau developed a well-deserved reputation as an exceptional lecturer and teacher and an advocate of bedside teaching through clinical demonstration. Clinique médicale contains the bulk of his most important writings and passed through two editions in Trousseau's lifetime and was printed in an eleventh French edition in 1913."
 
See also Heirs 1634: “Trousseau's immense skill as practitioner and clinician caused Garrison to compare him with men such as Bright and Addison. Although he discovered no new diseases, his descriptions of the common maladies of the day such as diphtheria, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever are unrivaled for their clarity and accuracy. As a leader of the French therapeutic renaissance, Trousseau was instrumental in creating new modes of treatment of croup, emphysema, pleurisy, goiter, and malaria.” 
 
G-M 2221, 4830: “Trousseau, clinician of the Hôtel-Dieu, made important advances in the treatment of diphtheria, typhoid, scarlet fever and other conditions. In his book he emphasized the value of bedside observation. He supported the doctrine of the specific nature of disease and realized the significance of Pasteur’s work on fermentation. On pp. 112-14 of vol. 2 Trousseau described the phenomenon in tetany which now bears his name. This is produced by pressure upon the arm sufficient to stop the circulation; the result is a sudden contraction of the fingers and hand into the so-called ‘obstetrical position’.”