‎LAENNEC (R.T.H.)‎
‎Traité de l'auscultation médiate et des maladies des poumons et du coeur -- 2 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Chaudé, 1826, 2 volumes in 8 reliés en demi-basane verte, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), (quelques rousseurs), T.1 : 36pp;, 728pp., 8 planches numérotées 1 à 4, T.2 : (2), 790pp., (1)‎

Reference : 2999

‎---- Seconde édition ENTIEREMENT REFONDUE ---- GARRISON N° 2673 : "Auscultation in the instrumental sense dates from Laennec's invention of the stethoscope (at first merely a roll of stiff paper) with a view to amplifying the sound of the heart's action. The publication of this book revolutionized the study of diseases of the thoracic organs. THE SECOND EDITION, 1826, EVEN MORE IMPORTANT, SINCE IT GIVES NOT ONLY THE VARIOUS PHYSICAL SIGNS ELICITED IN THE CHEST, BUT ADDS THE PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT OF EACH DISEASE ENCOUNTERED" ---- Norman N° 1255 : "In the first edition (1819), Laennec pursues the analytic method, giving the different signs elicited by percussion and auscultation, with the corresponding anatomic lesions. In the second edition (1826), the process is turned about and the method is synthetic, each disease being described in detail in respect of diagnosis, pathology, and (most intelligent) treatment, so that this edition is, in effect, the most important treatise on diseases of the thoracic organs ever written"**2999/C3-2995/ARM5‎