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[HECQUET, PHILIPPE.] Le Naturalisme des Convulsions dans les Maladies de l'Épidémie Convulsionnaire. [2], 198 pages. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf
[HECQUET, PHILIPPE.] Le Naturalisme des Convulsions dans les Maladies de l'Épidémie Convulsionnaire. [2], 198 pages. 12mo, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spine wormed at top, chipped at bottom; opening leaves foxed. Soleure: Andreas Gymnicus, 1733
- Notes: scarce first edition. Prompted by a wave of allegedly miraculous symptoms and behavior exhibited by visitors to the cemetery of St. Medard in Paris, Hecquet wrote this study of convulsions, epilepsy, and related conditions, which he regarded as purely medical rather than religious phenomena. Caillet 5021; Seligmann, The Mirror of Magic, page 453-56; Temkin, The Falling Sickness (1971), pages 224, 227.
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