Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2229

PAUL BLOCQ (1860-1896) Anatomie pathologique de la moelle épinière. G. Masson 1891 xi [45] pp., 45 plates, illus. 31.1 cm.

This early work on diseases of the spinal cord, with a preface by Charcot (see No. 1918 ff.), is devoted to photographs of cross-sections of the spinal cord and its tissue in health and disease, with explanatory text. Blocq was chief of pathology at the Salpêtrière and was the first to describe astasia-abasia in 1888. Londe, director of the photographic service at the Salpêtrière, did the photography for the book. A trained chemist, Londe began directing photography at the Salpêtrière in the early 1880s and achieved international stature in medical photography. His Photographie médicale (Paris, 1893) was the first book devoted to medical photography.

See Related Record(s): 1918