Nemesis Medicale Illustree, recueil de satires par Francois Fabre, Phocean et Docteur. Revue et Corrigee avec soin par l'auteur...
Honore Daumier. Paris: Au Bureau de la Nemesis Medicale 1840. First Edition. Two vols. in one; 8vo., pp. [v]-xxxii + [3]-278 + blank leaf + [7]-360; contemporary three-quarter calf and blue paper boards gilt; tips and spine ends worn; joints rubbed; boards scuffed; backstrip beginning to separate from text block; marbled endpapers; previous owner name front endpaper; scattered foxing throughout; good only. Good. Boards. [19344]
Illustrated with 30 wood engravings and many smaller vignettes after Daumier. The "only medical book illustrated entirely by Daumier," according to Norman. With twenty-five satirical verses, including such titles as "Souvenirs du Cholera-Morbus," "M. Orfila," "L'Homoeopathie," "Les Charlatans," "Le Magnetisme Animal," "La Phrenologie," "Les Pharmaciens," etc. Passages in the second volume -- see "Les Specialites" (pp. 53-74) -- refer to ophthalmology and several persons associated with that discipline. A. F. H. Fabre (1797-1854), studied medicine at Montpelier and Paris, settling in French capital as a physician and writer of medical texts on cholera and tubercular meningitis. He also wrote on medical education and academic freedom.
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