Les Bacteries et lur role dans l'Anatomie et l'Histologie Pathologiques des Maladies Infectieuses [The Bacteria and their role in the Pathologic Anatomy and Histology of Infectious Diseases]

Paris: Felix Alcan, 1886. Second edition.

EXPANDED ILLUSTRATED SECOND EDITION OF THE FIRST TEXT ON BACTERIOLOGY BY PIONEERING FRENCH AND ROMANIAN CO-AUTHORS.

14.5x24x6 cm 3/4 leather binding, black pebbled cloth covered boards, spine with raised bands, gilt title, marbled page edges, red endpapers, i-vi, [2], 839 pp, 348 chromolithographic figures intercalated in text, 1 frontispiece heliotype plate, 3 chromolithographic plates, Light wear to corners, hinges starting, binding tight, pages clean and bright. Very good in custom archival mylar cover.

GARRISON-MORTON No. 2501 (first edition, 1885). The second edition offered here was published the following year. The primary impetus for the expanded edition was a number of new discoveries, including Pasteur's treatment for prevention of rabies after a bite, ptomaine poisoning, advances in vaccines and parasitic diseases. Additional changes were made in response to colleagues, including Koch and his assistant Franck. Almost all figures in the plates of the first edition were replaced by color engravings in the text, and many new ones were added.

ANDRE-VICTOR CORNIL (1837-1908) became chief of the clinic at Hôtel Dieu in 1867, two years later professor agrégé on the faculty of medicine, and subsequently physician to the hospitals of Paris. When Charcot retired in 1882, Cornil succeeded to the professorship of pathological anatomy. Together with Ranvier, an inseparable co-worker and equally ambitious pathologist, they designed a private histological laboratory. As Cornil's reputation grew, his requirements for space increased. Eventually adequate laboratory facilities were provided in conjunction with the clinic at Hôtel Dieu, where he investigated a remarkable number of pathological-clinical subjects.

VICTOR BABES (1854-1926) was a Romanian physician, bacteriologist, academician and professor. In 1888, Babes elucidated the principle of passive immunity, followed by the principle of antibiosis. He made early and significant contributions to the study of rabies, leprosy, diphtheria, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. He also discovered more than 50 unknown germs and foresaw new methods of staining bacteria and fungi. In 1887, Babes was appointed professor of pathological anatomy and bacteriology at the Faculty of Medicine in Bucharest. He introduced rabies vaccination in Romania, only three years after its initiation by Louis Pasteur. He formulated the anti-diphtheria serum and researched pellagra, tuberculosis, typhoid fever and leprosy.