L'Art d'accoucher réduit à ses principes... avec l'histoire sommaire de l'art d'accoucher, et une lettre sur la conduite qu'Adam et Ève durent tenir à la naissance de leurs premiers enfants.
Paris - P.-G. Cavelier - 1766
- Format : in-16.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 392 pp.
- Language : Français
Period full-body binding with speckled basane, scratched, blunt jaws and headdresses, five-spine with raised bands decorated with gilded fleurons with brown Moroccan title piece. Blue marbled slices. Very clean interior with bookmark. Handwritten writing on the title page.
ORIGINAL EDITION of this book published in the year of Astruc's death, often considered as the seventh volume of the Treaty on Women's Diseases. The last chapter, curious and particularly tasty, studies the different possible behaviours of Adam and Eve, during the birth of their first children, with regard to the ligation and the section of the cord (Astruc proposes five solutions). Jean Astruc (1684-1766) studied philosophy and then medicine in Montpellier. Although he obtained a flesh at the University of Toulouse, then in Montpellier, although he became dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris and doctor of Louis XV, he was highly disparaged by his fellow surgeons who considered him an uncultured worldly doctor. His works, however, bear witness to great erudition.
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