LEOPOLD VON AUENBRUGGER

New Jersey: Roche, 1965. Folder has edge and corner wear. The packet of powdered camphor is missing, but the fascimile of his recipe is present.. Portfolio containing two booklets, plate introducing Auenbrugger, 2 pp. letter from Robert E. Dixon, director of professional services of Roche Laboratories introducing the set. von Auenbrugger recommended camphor-induced epilepsy as a treatment for certain cases of insanity and psychosis. Booklets are the Preface and a Case History from his Experimentum Nascens, one in the original Latin, and the other translated into English. The title of this book is, in Latin, Experimentum Nascens de Remedio Specifico Sub Signo Specifico In Mania Virorum; in English, Preliminary Experience with a Specific Remedy in a Specific Syndrome of Human Insanity. Distributed as a gift to doctors by this pharmaceutical company.