Cases and Observations upon most Distempers and Medicines. Done from the
Latin Original. With some Account of the Author’s Life, prefixed. There is also added, his Method of Curing the Small-Pox, written
in the Year 1704. for the Use of the Noble and Honourable Family of March.
London: Printed for
E. Curll,
J. Pemberton, and
W. Taylor,
1715.
R114 .P5
First Edition in English. 8vo. 153 leaves, the last four for
The Method of Curing the Small-Pox . . . with separate title.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue, I, xi, 331.
Archibald Pitcairne, 1652-1713, Scottish physician and poet, was for a time professor of physic at Leyden. In this work, translated from the
Latin by George Sewel and J. T. Desaguliers, the chapter
Of the Circulation of the Blood vindicates Harvey’s claim to its discovery. Pitcairne collected a fine library, which, after his death, was purchased by
the Emperor of Russia.
George Sewell, d. 1726, English physician, controversialist and hack writer.
Jean Théophile Desaguliers, 1683-1744, French physician and mathematician.
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De la methode Iatroliptice par Chrestien.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 45, as above, with reading
Jatroliptice.
CHRESTIEN,
Jean André.
De la Méthode Iatroliptrice;
[
sic--
Ed.
] ou, Observations Pratiques sur l’Administration des Remèdes à l’Extérieur, dans le Traitement de Maladies Internes; Par.
A.-J. Chrestien, Docteur en Médecine de l’ancienne Université de Montpellier . . .
Montpellier:
Renaud [de l’Imprimerie de la Veuve de
Jean Martel Ainé], An
XII [1803].
First Edition. 8vo. 184 leaves: [ ]
4, 1-22
8, 23
4, printer’s imprint at the end.
Querard II, page 199.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue II, iii, 629.
Not in Eloy.
Not in
Biographie Medicale.
This edition not in Monfalcon.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from the author, who wrote to the President from Montpellier on March 8, 1807: “Si je ne voyais en vous que l’ami eclairé de la Science, je n’oserais pas vous faire hommage de l’exemplaire d’un ouvrage
que je prens la liberté de vous offrir; mais vous êtes ami de l’humanité, et à ce titre vous daigneres cueillir un recueil
d’observations qui peut être utile à vos concitoyens, en multipliant les moyens d’administrer les remèdes les plus énergiques
dans des cas ou le malade ne peut pas les avaler ou les supporter . . .”
The letter was received by Jefferson on October 4. On April 29 of the following year he wrote to Chrestien: “
I recieved, some time since, your favor of Mar. 8. 07. accompanied by a copy of your Methode Iatroliptice for which I pray
you to accept my thanks. I have read it with all the satisfaction which it’s great merit is calculated to inspire, and with
the interest we necessarily feel in every discovery which tends to lessen the evils of suffering humanity. new channels of
access for medicine to the diseased parts of the body offer new chances of giving them relief. I took a former occasion of
thanking you for your work on the yellow fever recieved in 1805. which I hope got safe to your hands.
”
Jean André Chrestien, 1758-1840, French physician, was Mayor of Montpellier during the Revolution, and in charge of the Military Hospital in that
town. This edition of “an XII” is the first; Monfalcon records only the second edition of the same year.
In August 1804 Chrestien sent to Jefferson a copy of the work on the treatment of yellow fever.
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