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Mémoire sur le Croup, lu à la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Institut, dans les Séances des 22, 26 juin, et 6 Julillet 1807; Edition Nouvelle, corrigée et augmentée. by Desessartz, Jean Charles

by Desessartz, Jean Charles

Mémoire sur le Croup, lu à la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Institut, dans les Séances des 22, 26 juin, et 6 Julillet 1807; Edition Nouvelle, corrigée et augmentée. by Desessartz, Jean Charles

Mémoire sur le Croup, lu à la Classe des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques de l'Institut, dans les Séances des 22, 26 juin, et 6 Julillet 1807; Edition Nouvelle, corrigée et augmentée.

by Desessartz, Jean Charles

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Paris, Théophile Barrois, 1808. 8vo (21,5 x 14,5 cm). [2], XIV, 92, 7, [1 blank] pp. Modern marbled wrappers. In very good condition with an occasional foxspot, untrimmed and quires unopened, leaving deckle edges and point holes intact.

Second, augmented edition of Dessartz's detailed account of croup, or laryngotracheobronchitis, first published in 1807. Lovely unopened copy.

One of the treatments that the author prescribes is syrup of ipecac (in France also known as "sirop de Desessartz"), a cough mixtures widely used in the 18th and 19th centuries as as an expectorant; Desessartz details the recipe on pages 44 and 45. The last seven pages include with a separate part-title: 'Instruction en forme de Catéchisme, sur une espece de toux appelée Croup'.

WorldCat lists a handful of copies; this edition not in Wellcome Collection; cf. Hirsch & Hübotter, Biographisches Lexikon II, p. 162.
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Paris:: Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, 1760., 1760. 12mo. 18 cm xxxvi, 429, [1] pp. Index. Original mottled calf, raised bands, gilt-stamped spine, leather title label, edges red, marbled endleaves; corners showing, a couple of cover ink stains and worm-trailing, but a very good copy. Rare. First edition of the author's 'Treatise on the physical education of young children, or practical thoughts on how to provide a better constitution for citizens." The text was the inspiration for Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile, ou De l'education, 1762, which he considered to be among the best of his writings. Emile was banned in Paris and Geneva and was publicly burned in 1762, the year of its first publication. During the French Revolution, Emile served as the inspiration for what became a new national system of education. / Jean-Charles Desessartz was a French doctor, teaching in the Faculty of Paris, member of the Institute. He received his doctorate at Reim, then moving to Villers-Cotterets, then Noyon, taking a… Read More
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