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SAINT-MARTIN. Essay on rabies. Thesis presented and defended - Lot 226
SAINT-MARTIN. Essay on rabies. Thesis presented and defended at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, August 12, 1816, under the presidency of Monsieur le baron des Genettes. Paris, Didot jeune, 1816. In-4, paperback, blue soft cover.
First edition.
The thesis studies the disease, its spread, symptoms and treatment: cauterization, concentrated acids, gunpowder and tinder to which one sets fire, with this precision in case the subject is fearful, meticulous, strongly frightened at the mere idea of burning.
Autograph letter to Monsieur Récamier, a practicing physician and brother-in-law of Chateaubriand's famous friend Julie Récamier.
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