Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau. 2nd ed., revised and expanded. 3 vols. plus atlas
Publisher Information: Paris: Baillière, 1835.
Rayer, Pierre François Olive (1793-1867). Traité théorique et pratique des maladies de la peau . . . 3 vols. plus atlas. Text vols: xlii, 741, [3, incl. errata]; [4], 500; [4], 501-986pp. Atlas: 11pp. plus 26 hand-colored plates by Ambroise Tardieu (numbered I – V, Vbis, VI – VII, VIIbis, VIII – XI, XIbis, XII – XIX, XIXbis, XX-XXII), with separate printed keys. Paris: J. B. Baillière, 1835. 210 x 128 mm. (text); 358 x 280 mm. (atlas). Quarter calf gilt, marbled boards ca. 1835, light edgewear, atlas hinges a bit rubbed. Minor foxing but a very good, crisp set. Stamp of French physician and anthropologist Paul Topinard (1830-1911) on the title-page of each volume.
Second and Best Edition, greatly expanded from the two-volume first edition of 1826-27, and with a much-enlarged folio atlas of colored plates. In the preface to this edition, Rayer noted that
"I have revised all the descriptions in order to make them more exact and complete . . . Important additions have been made to the history of several diseases, in particular to that of smallpox and vaccinal eruptions; to that of scabies, syphilides, purpura, lupus, cutaneous scrofula and artificial inflammations. I have also given a more complete history of skin diseases peculiar to certain countries and of some animal diseases capable of being transmitted to man" (Vol. 1, pp. xii – xiii).
Rayer’s pathologic-anatomic textbook of dermatology included detailed coverage of diseases slighted by other writers (such as warts, skin cancer and glanders), and documented each section with references to the latest medical reports, thus providing a summary of the dermatological literature of the period. Rayer’s flexible groupings of skin diseases, arranged to highlight whatever features he wished to emphasize at a given moment, are reminiscent of modern textbook discussions. Rayer was the first to describe adenoma sebaceum and xanthoma multiplex, and to distinguish between acute and chronic exzema. He also gave definitive clinical descriptions of ecthyma, cheilitis exfoliativa, and lingua nigra.
This copy is from the library of French physician and anthropologist Paul Topinard, a student of Paul Broca, who later succeeded Broca as director of the École d’Anthropologie. He introduced the measurements “Topinard’s angle” and “Topinard’s line” in physical anthropology. Crissey & Parrish, The Dermatology and Syphilology of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 118-21. Garrison-Morton.com 3989. Norman 1799.
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