[Treatment - Narcotics] [HECQUET, Philippe] Réflexions sur l'usage de l'opium, des calmants, et des narcotiques, pour la gué rison des maladies. En forme de lettre. Paris, P.G. Cavelier, 12mo: [8]-374-pp. (some browning). Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (joints sl. rubbed), gilt sides, red sp. edges, marbled endpapers. First edition of this work on the medicinal use of psychotropics by the French physician Ph. Hecquet (1661-1737). He states that the use of the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy is usual among the people from the Orient and that it's proven to be a remedy for the cure of diseases. Ref. BnF. - Wellcome III:- Blake - Osler - Barbier IV:Prov. Ms. ownership entry on title.
[Treatment - Narcotics] [HECQUET, Philippe] Réflexions sur l'usage de l'opium, des calmants, et des narcotiques, pour la gué rison des maladies. En forme de lettre. Paris, P.G. Cavelier, 12mo: [8]-374-pp. (some browning). Contemp. calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (joints sl. rubbed), gilt sides, red sp. edges, marbled endpapers. First edition of this work on the medicinal use of psychotropics by the French physician Ph. Hecquet (1661-1737). He states that the use of the unripe seedpods of the opium poppy is usual among the people from the Orient and that it's proven to be a remedy for the cure of diseases. Ref. BnF. - Wellcome III:- Blake - Osler - Barbier IV:Prov. Ms. ownership entry on title.
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