Essai sur l'emploi medical de l'air comprime.

230 x 150 mm. 8vo. xi, 377 pp. Occasional browning. Modern quarter dark brown morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, marbled boards, marbled end-papers; new end-leaves. Untrimmed. Fine, handsome copy. FIRST EDITION. Pravaz's essay on the uses of compressed air in medicine. He accounts for the chemical changes due to atmospheric pressure. The phenomena related to high altitude and mountain climbing are studied. As an application for tuberculosis and as a treatment for Pott's disease, as a treatment for rickets (compressed air), for the use of deviations of the spine or chest, for chlorosis and anemia, as an application for deafness, for chronic congestions of the brain and spinal cord, as a treatment for nerves or neuroses, etc. In 1853 he was to develop the first practical metal syringe, made-up of a hollow metal needle, a precursor for the modern hypodermic needle, which he used for intra-arterial injection in the treatment of aneurysm. Alexander Wood (1725-1884) independently invented a similar device during the same year. Charles-Gabriel Pravaz, the son of doctors, was Director of the Orthopedic and Pneumatic Institute of Lyon. He invented the modern galvanocautery. Garrison and Morton 5603. He is known for the introduction of the hypodermic needle into Europe in 1851. (Garrison, History of medicine, p. 656). Hirsch, IV, p. 622. First Edition.

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Publisher: Giraudier; Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1850.

Year: 1850

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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