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CORVISART DES MARETS, Jean Nicolas (1755–1821)<br />
Quaestio medica... An senibus lac ovillum?<br />
Paris: Typis Quillau, Universit. & Facultatis Med. Typograph, 1781.<br />
4to, pp. 4, woodcut headpiece on Wrst page.<br />
251 x 196mm.<br />
Binding: Recent boards.<br />
First edition.<br />
A thesis on the question, Should goat’s milk be given to old people? Corvisart<br />
concludes, as is now recommended, that goat’s milk is suitable for the elderly.<br />
On p. 2 he refers to Leeuwenhoek’s microscopic observations of fat globules in<br />
milk. The thesis was defended by Corvisart on 1 March 1781 with Jean Charles<br />
Desessartz as praeses; he defended another dissertation on 14 November 1782<br />
with Antoine Pierre Demours as praeses.<br />
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CORVISART DES MARETS, Jean Nicolas (1755–1821)<br />
Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et<br />
des gros vaisseaux; extrait des leçons cliniques de J. N. Corvisart...<br />
publié, sous ses yeux, par C. E. Horeau... dédié a l’Empereur.<br />
Paris: de l’imprimerie de Migneret [verso of half title:] chez Migneret...<br />
H. Nicolle, 1806.<br />
8vo, pp. [7] x–lvi 484 [2], errata on last leaf, verso blank. Corrections<br />
on p. lvi (the publisher’s? – made before binding).<br />
199 x 119mm. Light foxing.<br />
Binding: Contemporary tree calf, Xat gilt spine, marbled endleaves, marbled<br />
edges. Spine and corners worn, spine slightly defective, joints weak.<br />
First edition. A second edition was published in 1811 and a third in<br />
1818. An English translation was published in Boston and Philadelphia<br />
in 1812. Garrison–Morton 2737; Heirs of Hippocrates 1126; Wellcome<br />
II, p. 394.<br />
‘In this great classic of cardiac literature, Corvisart for the Wrst time so<br />
ordered the symptomatology of heart disease that diVerentiation between<br />
cardiac and pulmonary disease was made possible. He distinguished between<br />
cardiac hypertrophy and dilation, he divided the clinical course of cardiac<br />
failure into three phases, and he showed the relationship between cause and<br />
eVect in valvular disease and cardiac failure. Corvisart was personal physician<br />
to Napoleon and enjoyed a close and loyal relationship with him’ (Heirs of<br />
Hippocrates).<br />
This edition was compiled by E. E. Horeau from notes based on Corvisart’s<br />
lectures and published under Corvisart’s supervision; Corvisart signed the<br />
dedication to Napoleon. Later editions were written by Corvisart himself.<br />
Fredrick A. Willius and Thomas E. Keys, Cardiac classics (1941), pp. 279–290.
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