Trousseau, A. Lot n° 270

Medical clinic of the Hotel-Dieu de Paris. New edition, complete in two volumes (804 + 804 pages) and published in Paris, by J.-B. Baillière et Fils, in 1868. Containing a black portrait of the author in frontispiece. Covered in a half-bound gilt binding with a ribbed spine decorated with titling and tomaison. The whole is quite well preserved: some rubbing on the headdresses and spine. Slight play in the hinge. Pages a little yellowed with some light freckles. Armand Trousseau, born October 14, 1801 in Tours and died June 23, 1867 in Paris, is a French doctor, clinician and politician. In 1830, he became a hospital doctor and in 1832, he obtained a position in public health at the Central Office. He continued his training with Joseph Récamier at the Hôtel-Dieu as a doctor. In 1837, the Medical Academy offered him an honorary prize for his work in this hospital. Two years later, Armand Trousseau was appointed head of the chair in therapy and pharmacology by the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, and the same year he was transferred to the Saint-Antoine Hospital.