Medicine - Spas - Lot 45

Medicine - Spas BORDEU (Théophile de) - L'usage des Eaux de Barèges et du mercure, dans les écrouelles ou dissertation sur les tumeurs scrophuleuses. New edition. Paris, Didot Le Jeune, 1767. In-12. Contemporary marbled fawn basane, ornate smooth spine, red title page, gilt roulette on edges, yellow edges. This work is normally bound with the other volume in this lot. - Recherches sur le Tissus Muqueux, ou l'Organe Cellulaire, et sur Quelques Maladies de la Poitrine. Paris, Didot Le Jeune, 1790. In-12. Contemporary fawn shagreened basane, ornate smooth spine, red title page, gilt fillet on edges, yellow edges. It is claimed that this work gave Bichat the idea for his "Anatomie Générale". Bordeu's fine Traité sur le Tissus Muqueux," says M. Flourens, "is where General Anatomy begins. Where even this name of tissues comes from, it comes from Bordeu". (Larousse XIXe II, 999)(Soulice S.&A. 2964)(Biog. Méd. I 387-403)(B.M. Pau Expo Th. de Bordeu 1957).