A treatise on the venereal disease...

by Astruc, Samuel Chapman

$650 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

London: W. Owen, 1770. 8vo. xxv, 3 , 490, 10 pp. Contemporary full calf. Joints weak, spine rubbed. Item #2519 Second edition, much expanded from Chapman's 1755 translation of Astruc's De morbis veneris, Books II-IV. Astruc 1685-1766 , a professor of anatomy in Paris, was an eminent historian of syphilis who utilized pathological anatomy in his studies of the venereal diseases. He was later personal physician to kings

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