‎ROSTAN (L.)‎
‎Traité élémentaire de diagnostic, de pronostic, d'indications thérapeutiques ou cours de médecine clinique -- EDITION ORIGINALE -- 3 VOLUMES (COMPLETE SET)‎

‎P., Béchet, 1826, 3 VOLUMES in 8 reliés en cartonnage bradel, dos ornés de filets dorés (reliures de l'époque), (coiffes usées, 1 coin émoussé), T.1 : (2), 587pp., T.2 : (2), 802pp., T.3 : (2), 597pp.‎

Reference : 7588

‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE des cours donnés par L. ROSTAN à la SALPETRIERE ---- "In 1809, Rostan (1790/1866) became an interne des hopitaux at La Salpêtrière in Paris, serving under the surgeon A.M. Lallemand and then under Philippe Pinel... Appointed Médecin-adjoint at La Salpêtrière in 1818, he organized courses in clinical medicine. These lectures, held at the bedside, were presented with great erudition and a highly developed clinical sense. They were immensely popular and influenced auditors as J.M. Charcot and K.R. Wunderlich. During this period Rostan conducted original research on encephalomalacia, myocardial hypertrophy and cardiac asthma. His scientific publications were notable for the precision of their clinical observations and for the clarity of their anatomico-pathological explanations. Rostan was a typical represnetative of the anatomicoclinical school of Paris. Confident of its sensualist and positivist approach and able to draw on the rich material for observation furnished by the great urban hospitals, this school constituted a bridge between Hippocratic and modern experimental medicine. In all of his scientific work, Rostan pursued the same goal : to explain clinical symptoms by specific organic lesions. His studies of the vascular disorders of the central nervous system and his definition of ramollissement cérébral were fundamental advances in the knowledge and interpretationof apoplexy...". (DSB XI p. 559/560) ---- Postel & Quetel p. 705**7588/C6DE‎