Lot 1065
1065
AUENBRUGGER, L. v. De inwendige razernij, of drift tot zelfmoord, als eene wezenlijke ziekte beschouwd; met oorsprongelijke waerneemingen en aenmerkingen bevestigd. Uit het Hoogduitsch vert. en met verscheiden aentekeningen verm., d. Lambertus Nolst. Dordr., J. Krap, 1788. (8), 129, (3) pp. Cont. brds., uncut. (Spine a bit dam./worn, slightly foxed/browned in places).
Rare first Dutch edition of an early psychiatric treatise on suicide. Leopold v. Auenbrugger (1722-1809) was the Austrian physician who invented percussion as a diagnostic technique. In 1761 he published the "Inventum novum ex percussione thoracis humani ut signo abstrusos interni pectoris morbos detegendi". On the strength of this discovery, he is considered one of the founders of modern medicine. His name is also associated with Auenbrugger's sign, a bulging of the epigastric region in the thorax, in cases of large effusions of the pericardium, the membrane which envelopes the heart. His later studies were devoted to tuberculosis. He pointed out how to detect cavities of the lungs, and how their location and size might be determined by percussion. - BMN, 249; Hirsch I, p. 225-6; Wellcome II, p. 70 (listing the first German edition). JAP mentions only one copy since 1950.€ 500
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