Galés, J.C. Mémoire et rapports sur les fumigations sulfureuses

appliquées au traitement des affections cutanées et de plusiers autres maladies. Imprimées par ordre du Gouvernement. Paris, Imprimerie Royale/ the author, 1816, (4),137,(1 blank),4,(2 blank) p. With 8 cont. handcol. fold. engr. plates of patients w. skin diseases, and 3 uncol. fold. engr. plates of fumigation compartments and equipment, cont. gilt longgrained red mor., a.e.g. Some sl. occas. foxing, a tiny wormhole in foot of spine. A very attractively bound copy.

Waller 3398; Wellcome p. 83. Not in Garrison & Morton, Honeyman, Norman Library or Osler. First edition of this work on the properties of sulphur fumes primarily for the treatment of skin diseases. An English edition appeared in 1818, a second French one in 1824.