Essai sur le méchanisme de l'electricité et l'utilité que l'on peur tirer pour guérison de quelques maladies
by MOLENIER, Jacob
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- first
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Schilde, Belgium
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About This Item
Bordeaux,: F. Sejourne,, 1768.. 108 pp. Small 4to (12 x 19 cm.). Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt decorated (partly stained, sides rubbed, top and bottom of spine damaged, title label gone), Finely printed on strong paper. With several woodcut headers and footers, text printed within a typographical border. ¶ First edition, very rare. Not in Wheeler nor in the NLM. Molenier, a quack avant la lettre was "Médecin privilégié du Roi & Inspecteur général des Privilégiés pour ce qui regarde la vente & distribution des Remedes". He worked in Versailles, Paris, French Flanders and ultimately in Bordeaux. The firs 64 pages are his "Eassai de l'Electricité", pp. 65-97 are testimonials of patient he had cured successfully. pp 98-103 contains a description of his anti venereal diseases remedy, sold in bottles for "un prix très-médiocre". A clean inner copy.
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- Bookseller
- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books (BE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2004
- Title
- Essai sur le méchanisme de l'electricité et l'utilité que l'on peur tirer pour guérison de quelques maladies
- Author
- MOLENIER, Jacob
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- F. Sejourne,
- Place of Publication
- Bordeaux,
- Date Published
- 1768.
- Keywords
- quackery remedies therapeutics electricity in medecine venereal diseases syphilis nostrum electro-therapy
- Bookseller catalogs
- electricity;
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About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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