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Heirs of Hippocrates

The Development of Medicine in a Catalogue of Historic Books

Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1635

ARMAND TROUSSEAU (1801-1867) Clinique médicale de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. J.-B. Baillière et fils; New York: Baillière Bros. 1861-1862 Vol. I: lii, 772 pp.; Vol. II: 841 pp. 21.7 cm.

As professor of clinical medicine and physician to the Hôtel Dieu, Trousseau developed a well-deserved reputation as an exceptional lecturer and teacher and an advocate of bedside teaching through clinical demonstration. Clinique médicale contains the bulk of his most important writings and passed through two editions in Trousseau's lifetime and was printed in an eleventh French edition in 1913.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2221; Waller 9696

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