Leçons sur le diagnostic et le traitement des principales formes de paralysie des membres inférieurs. Traduites de l'anglais par le Dr Richard Gordon...
Paris, Victor Masson et Fils, 1864.
Octavo, lxxvi (last blank), 146 pages.
Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, with the spine lettered and ruled in gilt; covers a little rubbed (mainly at the extremities); spine a little sunned; top edge, endpapers and first and last few leaves slightly foxed; tiny chip to the head of the half-title; overall an excellent copy.
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817-1894), Mauritian physiologist and neurologist, a pioneer endocrinologist and neurophysiologist who was among the first to work out the physiology of the spinal cord ('Encyclopaedia Britannica'). Provenance: Professor Donald Simpson AO (1927-2018), eminent Australian neurosurgeon, with his bookplate (annotated with his details of purchase: 'March 1988 Italy').
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