Recueil des Observations et de Faits rélatifs au Croup

Paris,: L'Imprimerie Impériale,, 1808.. 140 pp. 8vo (14 x 21,5 cm.). In the folded sheets (quires) as published (thus never bound), entirely uncut, edges "a la barbe". Preserved in modern paper wrappers. What was left of the title-page mounted on contemporary paper, the inner & outer margins of the last page reinforced. ¶ By order of the Napoleontic government the Ecole de Médecine published this report related to croup. The commission involved was composed of Corvisart, Hallé, Pinel, le Roy, Baudeloque, Le Roux, Chaussier, Moreau, Laennec, Schilgué, Parist and Friedlander. The editor was Schilgué, but owning to his premature death in 1808, suceeded by Moreux de la Sarthe. The work consist of an analysis of 68 French and foreign work on the subject, starting with Baillou (1576) and ended with Caron (1808). The analysis is concluded by brief chronological check-list of the works examinated. Very rare.