Pierre Campet, Practical Treaty of the Serious Diseases that - Lot 223

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Pierre Campet, Practical Treaty of the Serious Diseases that - Lot 223
Pierre Campet, Practical Treaty of the Serious Diseases that reign in the regions under the torrid zone and in the South of Europe. In which we find a great number of Observations on the Universal Spasm or Permanent Tonic Convulsion, common in the French Guiana; effective means to prevent its violence, to make its curing easy; and Extracts of the most interesting history given by Firmin in Surinam, Pison in Brazil, and Bontius in Batavia: by means of which practitioners will be able to compare the method of the author with those of these Doctors. In Paris, Chez Bossange, Masson et Besson, Croullebois, 1802. In-8 of XIV-496 pp., modern cartography. First edition. Complete medicine for the use of the colonists of the Two Indies, in charge of treating their slaves, but also young surgeons on board merchant ships, and finally the people of the countryside either in France or elsewhere "because the symptoms of diseases are the same in all climates". Chapters on universal spasm, tetanus, cathartics, dyssentery, cantharides, sudden death, white flowers, chewing gum, dropsy, vitriolic ether, etc. In addition, the author inserts two notices to young people and health officers who are going to exercise their condition under the torrid zone. Pierre Campet, about whom we have little information, was a doctor in Cayenne where he wrote a large part of his treatise before returning to France in 1772, after obtaining a retirement pension at the age of forty-six. He will be ruined during the Revolution and will delay the publication of his work all the more.
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