PORTAL Antoine " Medical Anatomy Course " Or... Lot 69

PORTAL Antoine " Medical Anatomy Course " Or Elements of the Anatomy of Man, with physiological and pathological remarks, and the results of observations on the location and nature of diseases, according to the opening of the bodies. FIRST EDITION. Antoine PORTAL, (1742-1832) was born in Gaillac (Tarn). He was the doctor of Princess Borghese, Joseph Bonaparte, Marshal Masséna and Kings Louis XVIII and Charles X. He created the Royal Academy of Medicine in 1818. Professor of medicine at the Collège de France, of anatomy at the Museum of Natural History; member of the Legion of Honour; of the National Institute of France and of the National Institute of Bologna; of the Academy of Sciences of Turin; of the Society of Sciences of Harlem, and of the medical societies of Edinburgh, Padua, Genoa, Brussels, Antwerp, Paris, Montpellier, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Tours, Neufchâtel. 5 volumes in 5 volumes In-8 (complete), full period basane binding, smooth spines decorated with title and tomison pieces. speckled edges. Paris Baudouin, Printer of the National Institute, Laporte and Arthus Bertrand An XII - 1804. Some rubbed corners otherwise very good condition.