1881 1ed Charcot Lectures Diseases Old Age Geriatric Medicine Pathology Surgery

1881 1^ed Charcot Lectures Diseases Old Age Geriatric Medicine Pathology Surgery

A rare first American edition of Jean Martin Charcot’s, ‘Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Old Age.’ A 19^th-century French neurologist, Charcot was famous for his lectures and works on hypnosis, hysteria, and other neurological diseases. The leading neurologist of his time, he has often been considered the father of modern neurology. This work is one of the earliest published works specific to geriatric medicine, notably it contains the first published descriptions of rheumatoid pericarditis and geriatric hand deformities. Other contents include senile pathology, nodular rheumatism, gout, anatomical lesions, thermometry, senile pneumonia, chronic catarrh, asthma, fatty heart, cerebral hemorrhage, apoplexy, senile hypertrophy of the prostate gland, and much more.

Item number: #21806

Price: $499

CHARCOT, J.M.

Clinical Lectures on The Diseases of Old Age

New York: William Wood and Company, (June) 1881. First American edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xv, [1], 280
  • 28 numbered figures and 3 plates throughout
• References: Garrison-Morton 2222
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Brown cloth
• Size: ~25in X 6.25in (23cm x 15.5cm)

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