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Lot 22
AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD. 1722-1809. Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni.... Vienna: Johann Thomas Trattner, 1761.
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AUENBRUGGER, LEOPOLD. 1722-1809.
Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni.... Vienna: Johann Thomas Trattner, 1761.
8vo (203 x 121 mm). Woodcut device on title page and endpiece on last page of text. 19th-century quarter morocco quarter morocco and marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine, modern red morocco and cloth clamshell box. Rubbed at extremities, light foxing.
Provenance: Dr. Jean Louis Leon Mailliot (ownership inscription on title; autograph notes on his letterhead, with cut-out silhouette on verso, tipped in at back); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale, Christie's, Part 2, June 15, 1998, lot 254).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without errata on F8 verso. "Auenbrugger founded the practice of chest percussion, a method that gave a new and dependable foundation to the diagnosis of chest diseases by permitting determination of disease-caused changes in the lungs and hearts of living patients. The discovery appears to have been based on the analogy between the chest cavity and wine casks, which Auenbrugger, the son of an innkeeper, had learned to thump as a means of determining their fullness" (Norman). Auenbrugger's techniques were not immediately accepted by the medical community, but that changed when Napoleon's personal physician, Jean Nicolas Corvisart, translated this book into French in 1808. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY Jean Louis Leon Mailliot, to whom this copy belonged, wrote several works on the techniques of percussion and auscultation. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2672; Grolier Medicine 45; Heirs of Hippocrates 954; Lilly, p 127; Norman 81; Wellcome II, 70.
8vo (203 x 121 mm). Woodcut device on title page and endpiece on last page of text. 19th-century quarter morocco quarter morocco and marbled boards, ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine, modern red morocco and cloth clamshell box. Rubbed at extremities, light foxing.
Provenance: Dr. Jean Louis Leon Mailliot (ownership inscription on title; autograph notes on his letterhead, with cut-out silhouette on verso, tipped in at back); Haskell F. Norman (bookplate; his sale, Christie's, Part 2, June 15, 1998, lot 254).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, without errata on F8 verso. "Auenbrugger founded the practice of chest percussion, a method that gave a new and dependable foundation to the diagnosis of chest diseases by permitting determination of disease-caused changes in the lungs and hearts of living patients. The discovery appears to have been based on the analogy between the chest cavity and wine casks, which Auenbrugger, the son of an innkeeper, had learned to thump as a means of determining their fullness" (Norman). Auenbrugger's techniques were not immediately accepted by the medical community, but that changed when Napoleon's personal physician, Jean Nicolas Corvisart, translated this book into French in 1808. FINE ASSOCIATION COPY Jean Louis Leon Mailliot, to whom this copy belonged, wrote several works on the techniques of percussion and auscultation. Garrison-Morton-Norman 2672; Grolier Medicine 45; Heirs of Hippocrates 954; Lilly, p 127; Norman 81; Wellcome II, 70.
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