‎ROSTAN (L.)‎
‎Recherches sur le ramollissement du cerveau ; Ouvrage dans lequel on s'efforce de distinguer les diverses affections de ce viscère par des signes caractéristiques -- BEL EXEMPLAIRE‎

‎P., Béchet, 1823, un volume in 8 relié en demi-basane, dos orné de filets dorés (reliure de l'époque), 23pp., 503pp.‎

Reference : 8580

‎---- BEL EXEMPLAIRE ---- Seconde édition (augmentée) dans laquelle "on y trouvera une multitude de FAITS NOUVEAUX et intéressans" (préface de l'auteur) ---- "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 representative 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 CEREBRAL (ENCEPHALOMALACIA) (1820-1823) WERE FUNDAMENTAL ADVANCES IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND INTERPRETATION OF APOPLEXY...". (DSB XI p. 559/560) ---- Postel & Quetel p. 705**8580/H3‎