Traité de l'auscultation médiate ou traité diagnostic des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2nd ed. 2 vols.
Publisher Information: Paris: J.-S. Chaudé, 1826.
Laennec, René Théophile Hyacinthe (17811826). Traité de lauscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur. 2 vols. [iii]-xxxvi, 728; [2], 790pp. 4 plates in Vol. I. Paris: J.-S. Chaudé, 1826. 202 x 128 pp. Later 19th-century half black calf, marbled boards ca. 1826, Vol. I hinges splitting, some rubbing. Half-titles lacking, tear in Vol. I title repaired, moderate toning. Ownership inscription on Vol. I title and several marginal notes in the same hand. Very good.
Second edition, extensively revised and reworked, of Laennecs classic work on the stethoscope. Laennecs invention of the stethoscope, announced in the first edition of De lAuscultation médiate (1819), provided the first adequate method for diagnosing diseases of the thorax, and represented the greatest advance in physical diagnosis between Auenbruggers percussion and Röntgens discovery of x-rays. The second edition, 1826, is even more important, since it gives not only the various physical signs elicited in the chest, but adds the pathological anatomy, diagnosis, and treatment of each disease encountered.
In the first edition [of De lAuscultation médiate] (1819), Laennec pursues the analytic method, giving the different signs elicited by percussion and auscultation, with the corresponding anatomic lesions . . . In the second edition (1826), the process is turned about and the method is synthetic, each disease being described in detail in respect of diagnosis, pathology, and (most intelligent) treatment, so that this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written (Garrison, History of Medicine, p. 412; emphasis ours). Some copies were sold with colored plates at a higher price. Garrison-Morton.com 14323. Norman 1255.
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