New Researches on Acute Articular Rheumatism in General; and especially on the law of coincidence of pericarditis and endocarditis with this disease, as well as the efficacy of the method of treating it by repeated blood-lettings at short intervals

Philadelphia: Haswell, Barrington, and Haswell, 1837. First English translation.

LANDMARK DESCRIPTION OF RHEUMATIC ENDOCARDITIS.

14 x 23 cm hardcover, recent black cloth binding, bookplate of Robert L. Chevalier MD to front paste-down, new endpapers, i-iv, [10]-64 pp. Scattered light foxing, very good.

GARRISON-MORTON No. 11556. "Nouvelles recherches sur le rhumatisme articulaire en général, et spécialement sur la loi de coincidence de la péricardite et de l'endocardite avec cette maladie, ainsi que sur l'efficacité de la formule des émissions sanguines coup sur coup dans son traitement. Paris: J.-B. Baillière, 1836." In this volume he [Bouillaud] irrevocably established the etiologic relationship between rheumatic fever and heart disease. Early reports on this relationship had been contributed by Pitcairn, Jenner, and Wells, but Bouillaud's exposition was more authoritative, comprehensive and accurate than theirs" (Willius & Dry, 125). The merit of Bouillaud's clinical observations was somewhat vitiated by his method of cure: repeated bloodletting at short intervals. Translated into English by James Kitchen as "New researches on acute articular rheumatism in general, 1837" (offered here).

JEAN-BAPTISTE BOUILLAUD (1796 - 1881) spent his student time under the guidance of his uncle Jean Bouillaud - chirurgien-major in the army. Following the completion of his studies Bouillaud received his doctorate in Paris in 1823 and subsequently distinguished himself by publishing a treatise on diseases of the heart. In 1831 he was appointed to the chair of clinical medicine at the Charité through competition and soon enjoyed the reputation of an outstanding clinician. However, an enthusiastic follower of his mentor François Joseph Victor Broussais, his therapy of bloodletting was heavily criticized. Bouillaud's works concerned different fields of medicine. His main achievement, however, was in the field of rheumatism. Acute rheumatoid endocarditis is still commonly termed Bouillaud's disease in medical dictionaries in the French language. He recognized the cartilaginous and synovial lesions of this disease and was the first to describe them. By 1861, Bouillaud was Doyen of the Faculty, Membre de I'Institut, and head of La Charité, and in 1868 he became a member of the Académie des sciences. Bouillaud has 6 entries in Garrison-Morton.