Traité expérimental et clinique d'auscultation appliquée à l'étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur. Insc. to P. Ricord

Beau, Joseph H. S. (1806-65). Traité expérimental et clinique d'auscultation appliquée à l'étude des maladies du poumon et du coeur. xii, 626pp. Text illustrations. Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1856. 214 x 131 mm. 19th-century quarter morocco, marbled boards, slight wear. Light toning but very good. Presentation Copy, inscribed to Philippe Ricord (1800-1889) on the half-title: "A mon savant collègue Mr. Ricord hommage affectueux Beau."

First Edition. Beau, a leading advocate of pathological physiology, was famous for his investigations of the physiology of the heart and lungs. In 1846 he published his pioneering description of cardiac insufficiency and asystole, sometimes called "Beau's syndrome." His writings on the heart and lungs, initially published in the Archives générales de médecine between 1834-45, are collected in the present work.