Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2085

CHARLES LOUIS ALPHONSE LAVERAN (1845-1922) Nouveaux éléments de pathologie et de clinique médicales. Librairie de J.-B. Baillière 1879 Vol.I: viii, 651 (numbered 649c) pp., illus.; Vol. II: [4] [649]-1392 pp., illus. 19.4 cm.

Here Laveran has collaborated with his colleague--Teissier--to write a detailed monograph on clinical medicine. The authors cover a wide range of clinical subjects and provide detailed discussions of their material. The book was well received and had reached its fourth edition by 1894. Teissier was educated at Paris and Lyons and, at the time this book was written, was supernumerary professor of medicine at Lyons and physician to its hospital. He was particularly interested in kidney diseases and chronic rheumatism. The authors were very straightforward in their approach to medicine and state: "In these Éléments de pathologie et de clinique médicales, we have tried to emphasize so far as possible the facts, and to avoid theories: theories disappear, facts remain. One can say in general that the value of a book on medicine is right in inverse proportion to the number of theories it contains" (translated from the Préface, pp. v-vi).

Gift of John Martin, M.D.