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Title: De la Nature des Fièvres, et de la Meilleure Méthode de les Traiter; avec quelques corollaries. Sur la nature des Convulsions…sur le traitement et l'extinction des Fièvres contagieuses; sur l'usage des immersions froides……traduit de l'Italien par N. Heurtelouf Author: Giannini, [Giuseppe] Place: Paris Publisher: Chez Léopold Collin Date: 1808 Description: 2 volumes. [4], xxxviii, 414; [3], 444 pp. (8vo) period quarter sheep over speckled boards, decorative gilt spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. First French Edition. Scarce work on fevers by the Milanese physician Giuseppe Giannini, “who was a disciple of Brown and Cullen and created his own medical system. It was a variation of theirs because in it all diseases were considered to be nervous in origin, with sthenic and asthenic components…His method of preventing and treating infectious diseases (was) with oral dilute acid.”-Clara: Giuseppe Giannini, Zurich, 1795. Wellcome III, p 113, cites the Naples 1817 2nd edition. Lot Amendments Condition: Some wear and soiling to bindings with light rubbing to extremities; light offsetting to endpapers, light toning; very good. Item number: 278738