C. Billard’s Krankheiten der Neugebornen und Säuglinge, nach den neuesten klinischen und pathologisch-anatomischen im Hospital der Findelkinder zu Paris gemachten Beobachtungen. Aus dem französischen frei bearbeitet von Fr. Ludw. Meißner
by Charles-Michel Billard
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X, 384, (2) pages, 2 large folded engraved and color printed plates on a black background (330 x 195 mm). Cont. black boards, red morocco label. (210 x 123 mm). Boards rubbed and soiled, title with privat owner stamp (Joseph Meyer), browned due to paper quality. (Together with:) Pathologisch-anatomischer Atlas. Zur Erläuterung der Geschichte der Kinderkrankheiten von C. Billard. Weimar, im Verlag des Grossherzogl. Sächs. Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs 1829. 4 pages text, 7 engraved plates printed in colours with added hand-colouring of which two with an black background). Publisher's ocre printed wrappers. 4to (300 x 240 mm). Spine with tear, covers lightly spotted. Very rare, complete work on neonatal medicine with color printed plates and with the often lacking atlas which was delivered later and printed by another publisher; as the title-page of the text-volume states "Die Kupfertafeln werden in einigen Wochen nachgeliefert". Billard's book was the first systematic clinical - pathological text on the newborn infant, and thus indirectly the fetus was also studied. His experience of newborn infants was based on a year working at the Hospice des Enfants Trouvés in Paris. During that year (1826) 5392 infants were admitted to the hospital, of which 1404 died. The text is packed with original descriptions and insights which in many instances have been credited to others since his time. "The approach is so modern that it may be read with delight and value by anyone with an interest in perinatal medicine." (Dunn, 1990). Charles - Michel Billard (1800-1832) studied medicine in Angers and Paris. During this time he was very poor and supported himself by writing for medical journals and undertaking translations, having learned English, German and Italian. In 1828 he published his masterpiece, contracted phthisis. The book was translated with commentaries by the German obstetrician, gynecologist and pediatrician Friedrich Ludwig Meissner (1796-1860), who lectured from 1821 in the university in Leipzig before he opened his own clinic in 1838. "M. C. Billard druckte zwei Radierungen für seinen Atlas der Pathologie in weißer Farbe auf schwarz grundiertem Papier. Nur auf diese Weise glaubte er, die Form und weiße Farbe der tödlichen Ausscheidung eines Pilzbelags wiedergeben zu können. Drucktechnisch gesehen ergibt sich dabei die Schwierigkeit, dass weiße Druckfarbe nur wenig opak ist und daher in diesem Druck eher hellgrau aussieht. Deshalb wurden die helleren Teile der Abbildung mit Pinsel und Wasserfarbe nachträglich weiß gehöht. Nichtsdestoweniger schöpfte Billard die Möglichkeiten des Farbdrucks aus, um das Bild eines bestimmten medizinischen Zustands so klar wie möglich darzustellen." (Grimm, Kleine-Tebbe, Stijnman. Lichtspiel und Farbenpracht. Entwicklungen des Farbdrucks 1500-1800, pp. 84-85); Goldschmid, Entwicklung der pathologisch-anatomischen Abbildung, pp. 131/132. Rare to find complete with atlas- and text-volume.
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- C. Billard’s Krankheiten der Neugebornen und Säuglinge, nach den neuesten klinischen und pathologisch-anatomischen im Hospital der Findelkinder zu Paris gemachten Beobachtungen. Aus dem französischen frei bearbeitet von Fr. Ludw. Meißner
- Author
- Charles-Michel Billard
- Format/Binding
- Cont. boards (text); publisher's printed wrappers (atlas)
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Publisher
- C. H. F. Hartmann
- Place of Publication
- Leipzig
- Date Published
- 1829
- Size
- (300 x 240 mm)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- medicine, paediatric diseases, colour printing
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