CABANIS Pierre-Jean-George. Coup d'Oeil sur les Révolutions et sur la Réforme de la Médecine. Paris, Crapelet, An XII - 1802.
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small 8° mm. 190 x 130, pp. XII, 438. Contemporary half calf binding, golden titles and ornaments on the spine. Stamp of extinct library on the titlepage.
FIRST EDITION of this great physician and the "philosopher of medicine" P.-J.-G. Cabanis [1757-1808], he grew up in the "philosophes" before the Revolution, a friend of Mirabeau and related through his wife with Condorcet, of which he avoided execution. His works, almost all appeared after 1789, are inspired by a philanthropic spirit also with regard to the innovative views on hospital care and social assistance reform, and he was among the first to study the psychology out of the mists of metaphysics, deepening the study of the interdependencies between the physical and the moral man, in his most famous work, which appeared in 1802 [qv].
Qui egli espone le sue vedute su una possibile riforma della medicina, sia nella pratica terapeutica che nell'insegnamento formativo, dopo aver tracciato un sommario profilo storico della scienza medica.
Dezeimeris, I/p. 580. Wellcome, II/283 [l'ediz. del 1804].
Condition Report: slight sign of foxing, good copy.
FIRST EDITION of this great physician and the "philosopher of medicine" P.-J.-G. Cabanis [1757-1808], he grew up in the "philosophes" before the Revolution, a friend of Mirabeau and related through his wife with Condorcet, of which he avoided execution. His works, almost all appeared after 1789, are inspired by a philanthropic spirit also with regard to the innovative views on hospital care and social assistance reform, and he was among the first to study the psychology out of the mists of metaphysics, deepening the study of the interdependencies between the physical and the moral man, in his most famous work, which appeared in 1802 [qv].
Qui egli espone le sue vedute su una possibile riforma della medicina, sia nella pratica terapeutica che nell'insegnamento formativo, dopo aver tracciato un sommario profilo storico della scienza medica.
Dezeimeris, I/p. 580. Wellcome, II/283 [l'ediz. del 1804].
Condition Report: slight sign of foxing, good copy.
