Lot n° 159

SOCIÉTÉ ROYALE DE MÉDECINE DE PARIS. Année M.DCC.LXXVI [- M.DCC.LXXXVII]. Avec les Mémoires de Médecine & de Physique Médicale, pour la même année, tirés des Registres de cette Société. Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres [e poi Barrois],...

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Description
1779-1790.
18 tomes bounded in 9 vols. Large 4to mm. 260 x 195 .
• Vol. I pp. LV+360+592+[4] with 16 plates;
• Vol. II pp. XXII+[2]+324+648 with 2 copper plates;
• Vol. III pp. XIV+268+690+[2] with 15 copper plates;
• Vol. IV pp. [4]+XVI+392+430 with 15 copper plates;
• Vol. V pp. [4]+XII+300+582 with 2 copper plates;
• Vol. VI pp. [4]+223+359;
• Vol. VII pp. [4]+VIII+318+434;
• Vol. VIII pp. [4]+VII+320+386 with 2 copper plates;
• Vol. IX pp. VIII+628+XXXVI+VIII+201. In each vol. many tables folded out text. Contemporary full calf binding.
•All published, except in the last volume, which appeared extremely late in 1798, this important collection of academic memories of the Société Royale de Médecine in Paris, founded in 1776 on the largest scientific society model arisen in England. Each volume is divided into two sections, the first containing the report of the Société, the second containing the scientific papers, among whose authors emerge more anatomists, chemists and naturalists French era, [Geoffroy, Fourcroy, Vicq- Dazyr, Thouret, Hallé, Maquer, etc.]; Société contributed greatly to the establishment, in the period preceding the Revolution, of a close link between the progress of medicine and pharmacy and those of lavoisieriana chemistry. Among the important published memoirs, with a wealth of illustrative tables, we include: the first volume a beautiful iconography on mushrooms, in the IInd tome important reasearches on smallpox; Lalouette, Experiences sur les propriétés médicales de l'air fixe; in the III3d tome: Mauduyt, Électricité médicale; Vicq Razyr, Sur les concréctions animales; Macquer, Réfléxions sur la magnèse; Hallée, Observations et expériences sur l'Urine, Thouret, Usage de l'Aimant en Médecine; in the IVth tome: Scarpa, Anéurisme de l'arcade de l'Aorte; Brisson, Pesanteur spécifique des substances en médecine; Mauduyt, Manières d'administrer l'Électricité; in the Vth tome: Fourcroy, Sur le sel marin calcaire; Lavoisier, Sur les altérations qui arrivent à l'air; in the VIIth tome: De Castres, Nourriture de gens de mer [notevole trattato di dietologia]; in the VIIIth tome: Lavoisier e Fourcroy, Falsifications des Cidres; Fourcroy, Recherches sur le gaz-azote; in the IXth tome: Parmentier, Deyeux e Boysson, Mémoires sur le lait [Important as the first assay of chemical analysis of the various species of milk]; etc. etc. Each atom also contains meteorological observations of Cotte, Pauly, p. 611; Graesse, III/289.
Pauly, p. 611; Graesse, III/289.

Sign of wear at the bindings, slight spread foxing, good specimen.
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