Bayle on tuberculosis 1810

BAYLE, G. L. Recherches sur la Phthisie Pulmonaire ouvrage lu a la societe de la faculte de medicine de Paris dans diverses seances en 1809 et 1810. Paris (chez Gabon) 1810.

8:o. (7), viii-xxiv, (1)-439, (1 blank) pp.
Contemporary brown mottled full calf, worn, gilt frames to covers, gilt spine, damages at head and foot, speckled edges. Some light spotting and marginal browning. Stamped on title "Svenska Läkaresällskapet", duplicate label on inside of upper cover.

First edition. The beginning of the modern clinical conception of tuberculosis.