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HELVETIUS (Jean-Adrien). Traité des pertes de sang de quelque espèce qu'elles soient avec leur remède spécifique [...] Accompanied by Lettre sur la nature & la guérison du cancer. Paris, Laurent Houry, 1697. Small in-8 (16.5 x 9.5 cm), 7 ff.-168 pp, brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, title page, gilt roulette on the edges (period binding). First edition illustrated with an engraved fold-out plate showing an operated tumor and the instruments used. Joints partially split, leather missing from headpieces, handwritten inscriptions in ink on title page, otherwise a good copy. Dutch-born physician Jean-Adrien Helvetius (1661?-1727) became famous for his discovery of the virtues of ipecacuana against dysentery. He treated the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV, with this remedy, and went on to become King's advisor, physician inspector general of hospitals in French Flanders, and physician to the Duke of Orléans.

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HELVETIUS (Jean-Adrien). Traité des pertes de sang de quelque espèce qu'elles soient avec leur remède spécifique [...] Accompanied by Lettre sur la nature & la guérison du cancer. Paris, Laurent Houry, 1697. Small in-8 (16.5 x 9.5 cm), 7 ff.-168 pp, brown calf, ornate ribbed spine, title page, gilt roulette on the edges (period binding). First edition illustrated with an engraved fold-out plate showing an operated tumor and the instruments used. Joints partially split, leather missing from headpieces, handwritten inscriptions in ink on title page, otherwise a good copy. Dutch-born physician Jean-Adrien Helvetius (1661?-1727) became famous for his discovery of the virtues of ipecacuana against dysentery. He treated the Dauphin, son of Louis XIV, with this remedy, and went on to become King's advisor, physician inspector general of hospitals in French Flanders, and physician to the Duke of Orléans.

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