243 x 162 mm. 8vo. ix, 173 pp. Printed wrappers; penciled notations on top cover, extremities chipped. Ownership rubber stamp of Dr. Edmund Nobel on title. Very good. RARE. GERMAN EDITION of the 1826 edition. "Bretonneau showed that croup, malignant angina, and 'scorbutic gangrene of the gums' were all the same disease, for which he suggested the term 'diphtheritis', later substituting 'diphtherite'. He performed tracheotomy for croup." Garrison and Morton. "Pierre Bretonneau, of Tours, wrote important monographs on the contagion of 'dothienenteritis' or typhoid fever (1819-29), on diphtheria... View More...
