Recherches sur le traitement du cancer par la compression méthodique simple ou combinée, et sur l'histoire générale de la même maladie

Paris & Montpellier: Gabon/ Bruxelles: Chez Gabon, 1829. FIRST EDITION. With 7 folding plates. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine labels; text leaves toned, some browning and spotting. Laid in is a folded piece of paper with contemporary annotations containing a recipe for a topical ointment for skin ulcers and lesions. First edition of Récamier’s work on cancer treatment. He describes the manner of extension of cancer and demonstrates the process of local infiltration. Récamier was the first to recognize the process of metastasis to describe the spread of cancer as secondary growths in the brain occurring in mammary carcinoma; it was in this book that he coined the term. He also described for the first time invasion of veins by cancer.

Récamier (1774-1852) was a French gynecologist and master of gross pathology. He is credited with the popularization of several instruments in gynecological medicine.

Garrison & Morton, 2610; Norman, 1805; Waller, 7787; Wellcome, IV, 485.