Mémoire sur l'acupuncture suivi d'une série d'observations recueillies sous les yeux de M.Jules Cloquet
Publisher Information: Paris: Crevot, 1825.
Morand, J. Mémoire sur l’acupuncture, suivi des observations recueillies sous les yeux de M. Jules Cloquet. 56pp. Paris: Chez Crevot, 1825. 233 x 190 mm. Later marbled boards. Minor foxing and toning but fine otherwise.
First Edition, and very rare on the market—this is the first copy we have handled in fifty years of trading. Morand—about whom little else is known—was a student of Jules Cloquet, one of the first European physicians to investigate the use of acupuncture for treating pain; Cloquet, however, never published his own researches, leaving that to his student Dantu (1826; see Garrison-Morton.com 6289).
Morand divided his Mémoire into three parts: The first was devoted to summarizing the (European) knowledge of acupuncture prior to Cloquet’s researches; the second to a description of the operation and the theories it had inspired; and the third to a discussion of the ailments in which acupuncture had been employed and the results of those treatments. Morand’s book was translated into English the same year by Franklin Bache (Benjamin Franklin’s great-grandson) as Memoir on Acupuncturation, Embracing a Series of Cases, Drawn up under the Inspection of M. Julius Cloquet by M. Morand, Doctor of Medicine (1825). Garrison-Morton.com 14163.
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