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[LORRY, ANNE-CHARLES DE.] Tractatus de morbis cutaneis. [4], xvi, 704, [4] pages. 4to, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, cover
[LORRY, ANNE-CHARLES DE.] Tractatus de morbis cutaneis. [4], xvi, 704, [4] pages. 4to, contemporary mottled sheep gilt, spine ends chipped, cover corners worn through; some toning and light marginal foxing, owners' signatures on half-title. Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1777
- Notes: first edition of the first modern textbook of dermatology. "Lorry is regarded as the founder of French dermatology... his most important work is his Tractatus, in which he attempted the classification of diseases on the basis of essential relations, their physiological, pathological, and etiological similarities"--Garrison-Morton 3983. Heirs of Hippocrates 964; Norman 1392.
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