Jean Astruc - Traité des maladies des femmes - 1765





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Three-volume new edition of Traité des maladies des femmes by Jean Astruc, in French, on medicine, bound in full leather with raised spine bands, Lyon edition of 1765, about 1050 pages total.
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Jean Astruc. Treatise on the Diseases of Women. Lyon, Libraires associés, 1765, xxxvi-296 pp., vi-380 pp., xii-395 pp.
3 volumes in-12 (170x100 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title pieces and numbering labels in havana morocco (bindings of the period). Worn and rubbed on the boards and the spine, several headbands worn, small worm-eaten run in the inner margin pp.55-64 without affecting the text. Interior fresh, rare foxing.
New edition - Complete edition in 3 volumes reprinting the four volumes of the Paris edition.
Copy well complete with the folding plate containing the 4 figures
Medical work devoted to the diseases of the female genital apparatus, to menstruation, to pregnancy and to the disorders of the uterus.
Jean Astruc strives to couple a theoretical presentation of diseases with the examination of symptoms, of supposed causes, of diagnosis and of the treatments recommended in his time. He addresses in particular menstrual disorders, the difficulties related to pregnancy and childbirth, as well as affections of the uterus and the vagina.
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Jean Astruc. Treatise on the Diseases of Women. Lyon, Libraires associés, 1765, xxxvi-296 pp., vi-380 pp., xii-395 pp.
3 volumes in-12 (170x100 mm), full calf, spine with raised bands ornamented, title pieces and numbering labels in havana morocco (bindings of the period). Worn and rubbed on the boards and the spine, several headbands worn, small worm-eaten run in the inner margin pp.55-64 without affecting the text. Interior fresh, rare foxing.
New edition - Complete edition in 3 volumes reprinting the four volumes of the Paris edition.
Copy well complete with the folding plate containing the 4 figures
Medical work devoted to the diseases of the female genital apparatus, to menstruation, to pregnancy and to the disorders of the uterus.
Jean Astruc strives to couple a theoretical presentation of diseases with the examination of symptoms, of supposed causes, of diagnosis and of the treatments recommended in his time. He addresses in particular menstrual disorders, the difficulties related to pregnancy and childbirth, as well as affections of the uterus and the vagina.

