Jean-Louis Alibert - Traité des fièvres pernicieuses intermittentes - 1804

Jean-Louis Alibert. Treatise on pernicious intermittent fevers. Paris, Crapart, year XII [1804], xxx-402 pp. and 3 folding plates One octavo volume (205x130 mm), half leather, smooth spine, title-piece in red morocco (binding of the period). Beautiful state of the binding. Foxing scattered. Ex-libris of Adornus de Tscharner pasted on the front paste-down. Third edition; with 3 folding plates (out of five) Medical treatise devoted to pernicious intermittent fevers, severe forms of fever characterized by periodic attacks likely to lead to mortal complications. Jean-Louis Alibert, a physician trained at the Paris School of Health and close to Philippe Pinel, studies therein the clinical manifestations of these affections, their diagnosis and the treatments then recommended. Particular attention is given to quinquina, the major remedy of the era against intermittent fevers.

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