Dictionnaire Universel de Matiere Medicale et de Therapeutique Generale; contenant l'indication, la description et l'emploi de tous les medicamens connus dans les diverses parties du globe

Paris: J.-B. Bailliere, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834. First edition.

SCARCE COMPREHENSIVE COMPENDIUM OF EARLY 19TH CENTURY MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS.

Six hardcover volumes, 12.5x21 cm 3/4 leather binding, spine with raised bands and gilt black leather labels, marbled paper covered boards, front free endpaper of each volume inscribed, "Presented by S. L. Jepson MD, Oct 29, '85." Vol. I, i-xii, 706 pp; Vol. lI, 704 pp; Vol. III, [2], 742 pp; Vol. IV, [2], 746 pp; Vol. V, [2], 658 pp; 'vol. VI, [4], 1027 pp. Covers and cover edges rubbed, corners worn, light foxing/browning to first and last pages. Bindings tight, pages unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar covers.

FRANCOIS VICTOR MERAT DE VAUMARTOISE (1780-1851) was a French physician, botanist and mycologist. In 1803 he obtained his medical doctorate, afterwards serving as chef de clinique at the Hôpital de la Charité in Paris. He was a member of the Académie nationale de médecine and a correspondent member of the Société linnéenne de Lyon (1824–1851).

ADRIEN JACQUES DE LENS (1786 – 1846) was a member of the Academy of Medicine from its founding, was appointed in 1823 as an associate professor at the Faculty of Medicine in Paris, and soon after became Inspector General of the University. He is best known for the Dictionary of Materia Medica and Therapeutics , which he published with François-Victor Mérat de Vaumartoise, a work to which the Academy of Sciences awarded one of the Montyon Prizes.

DICTIONNAIRE: The work offers a comprehensive description of medicinal agents, both physical and chemical, from natural and artificial mineral waters to poisons, venoms, and infectious agents; as well as foods and natural products. Intended for physicians, pharmacists, and "other enlightened classes of society," it contains some 3,500 entries, most of which include multiple cross-references and bibliographic citations. The 6 volumes offered here, published 1829-1834, are complete (topics A-Z, list of subscribers. A supplement (not included) was published in 1846.

PROVENANCE: SAMUEL L. JEPSON (1842-1922) in 1868 was awarded the degree of M.D. by the Medical College of Ohio. He served as resident physician and surgeon in the Cincinnati Hospital, after which he was elected as City Health Officer of Wheeling. Always active in medical societies, Dr. Jepson served as secretary and twice as President of the Ohio County Medical Society, for three years as Secretary and in 1887 as President of the State Medical Association, and for three years as a member of the Judicial Council of the American Medical Association. He wrote many medical papers for the journals and societies. From 1884 to 1889 he served in Wheeling as Acting Assistant Surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital Service; from 1889 to 1893 and from 1907 to 1915 as United States examining surgeon for pensions. In 1913, Dr. Jepson was made a member and Secretary of the State Board of Health, and in 1914, Governor Hatfield appointed him as the first Commissioner of Health.