Lot n° 1043

POTT, Percival Du mal vertébral ou De l’impotence des extrémités inférieures, qui reconnoît pour cause un vice de la colonne épinière. Avec le moyen de la guérir [trsl. from the English and ed.] Cl.-Fr. Duchanoy. 1785 Méquignon, 8vo, mod....

Estimation : 100 / 150
Adjudication : 200 €
Description
marbled boards (half-title loosening), flat spine with blindstamped label, red edges, [4]-xx-48 pp. (some spotting). Good copy.
French trsl. by Duchaunoy (1742-1821) of “Remarks on that kind of palsy of the lower limb, which is frequently found to accompany a curvature of the spine” (1779) by the English surgeon P. Pott (1714-1788). Pott’s disease is a spinal curvature due to tuberculous caries, causing paralysis of lower limbs.
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