Cullen - Traité de Matière Médicale - 1789

M. Cullen - Treatise on Materia Medica

Translated from English from the sole edition given by the author in Edinburgh in 1789 by M. Bosquillon

In Paris, at Théophile Barrois le jeune, 1789. 437 pages. Volume 1 only (of the two that were published). Full binding with a smooth, period spine. Front and back covers slightly rubbed, spine worn (see photos). Interior of the book complete and in good condition.

Cullen's Treatise on Materia Medica is one of the major medical works of the late eighteenth century.

Rooted in the tradition of the teachings of the renowned Scottish physician William Cullen, professor at Edinburgh, it proposes a reasoned classification of medicinal substances and their effects on the human body.

The French edition of 1789–1790, translated by Bosquillon, spread in France an influential medical doctrine at the very moment when medical sciences were being renewed on the eve of the 19th century.