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Ricord, Philip [Author]; Betton, Thomas F. [Translator]; Goddard, Paul B. [Author]. ILLUSTRATIONS OF SYPHILITIC DISEASE WITH THE ADDITION OF A HISTORY OF SYPHILIS, AND A COMPLETE BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FORMULARY OF REMEDIES. WITH FIFTY LARGE QUARTO PLATES, COMPRISING ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN BEAUTIFULLY COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS. A. Hart, late Carey and Hart, Philadelphia, 1852.

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Description: Quarto, iii-vii, 9-360 pp, with plates. Good; rebound in modern brown cloth with gilt titling to spine, some scattered surface marks to covers, very light bumping to spine edges and corners; binding tight; text block age-toned and discolored, with evidence of liquid staining to top edge from center signature to back of book; age-toning and foxing to pages and plates throughout; 50 plates present and intact as indicated; MF consignment. 1358773. Special Collections.

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Ricord, Philip; trans. Thomas F. Beeton; ed. Paul B. Goddard. Illustrations of syphilitic disease. . . with the addition of a history of syphilis, and a complete bibliography and formulary of remedies. . . With Fifty Large Quarto Plates comprising one hundred and seventeen beautifully colored illustrations. A. Hart, Philadelphia, 1852.

Price: US$3150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Second edition. Philadelphia: A. Hart, 1852. Quarto (12 3/8" x 10 1/8", 315mm x 259mm). [Full collation available.] With 50 lithographed plates colored by hand. Bound in the publishers grey ribbed cloth. Author, title and editor gilt to the front board. On the spine, five panels in blind. Splits, wear and losses to the spine (front board starting), and wear along the extremities. Signs of damp within and without, especially from 421r (p. 329)-rear paste-down, where there is black growth. Although the plates are merely tanned, the text is foxed and damp-stained throughout. Ink ownership signature of L.M. Lee M.D. to the front paste-down and to the recto of the first free end-paper (subscribed "Adams Street/ Dorchester"). Cancelled bookplate of the Library of the Rhode Island Medical Society, gift of (completed in ink:) Dr. R. S. Wilcox. Ownership signature of "Dr James T. Shennan./ 748 Dudley Street./ 29 Virginia Street./ Dorchester/ Massachusetts." to the recto of the first free end-paper. A volume whose condition matches its contents. Philippe Ricord (1800-1889) was head of surgery at l'hôpital des maladies vénériennes (hospital for venereal disease) in Paris, and pioneered not only the treatment but also the diagnosis of syphilis; he crystallized the three stages of the disease still recognized today. He was also the first to distinguish syphilis and gonorrhea empirically; in his honor the Ricord's chancre. Come 1862 he was named personal physician to Emperor Napoleon III. His pioneering work on syphilis -- illustrated by 117 "beautifully colored" figures on 50 plates -- complete with case histories and treatment regimens, saved untold lives. Thus the work was translated into English in 1851 (pace Heirs of Hippocrates) along with Goddard's formulary of treatments for, and a thorough bibliography of works on, the disease. The plates are by Peter Stephen Duval, the great French-born Philadelphian lithographer. They're quite vivid, doubtless reflecting the various presentations of the disease. The book passed through the hands of at least three doctors before being given to the library of the Rhode Island Medical Society. L.M. Lee in 1868 practiced in Providence, RI (199 Westminster St.). Come January 1869 he announced a move from Randolph, MA to Dorchester, and so that subscribed address suggests that he owned the book by then at least. The 1886 Blue Book of Dorchester shows Dr. James T. Sherman at 760 Dudley Street rather than 748 Dudley; it is unclear when the move was made and whence whither. In 1900 Dr. and Mrs. Sherman were in Gorham, ME "a few days on their way to Kineo." The Rhode Island Medical Journal noted in September 1917 that Dr. R.S. Wilcox (Brown class of 1885) "has accepted a commission as a captain in the Officers' Reserve Corps of the Army, and is now at Fort Benjamin Harrison" (in Harrison, IN); thence he went to Camp Beauregard in Louisiana. Heirs of Hippocrates 1652; Osler 3802.

Seller: Arader Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.