[ONCOLOGY] TURCK, Leopold

Essai sur le Cancer

Paris: Chez J.-B. Baillere, 1842. First edition. 12mo. Sewn pamphlet; 32pp. Removed; lacking cover wrappers; half-title present. Mild foxing to first and final few leaves; faint marginal dampstain to upper corner of final 10 leaves; else text quite good and paper strong. The author was physician-in-residence at the mineral hot springs of Plombieres, and authored a pamphlet on the restorative properties of the baths in 1832. The present work provides a brief general essay on the signs and symptoms of "Le Cancer" and presents five case studies of patients successfully treated by Dr. Turck at Plombieres. Rare; OCLC locates one copy only (Wellcome Library).

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