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Essai Sur L'Air Considéré Comme Cause De Maladies Présenté Et Soutenu à L'École De Médecine De Paris Le 7 Prairial an XIII .
1805LCK91273Paris: Didot Jeune. 1805. First Edition. Disbound. Very Good-. Disbound from convolute of theses with stab-holes visible and occasional remnant old binding. Bottom right hand corner last page slightly creased. Occasional light foxing. Slight wear & light soiling to outer pages. ; Early nineteenth-century Paris medical thesis on the etiological role of air and atmosphere in the production of disease defended at the École de médecine in the late Consulate period. Bourdon discusses the physical and chemical properties of air its alteration by miasmatic effluvia and urban insanitary conditions and the ways in which temperature humidity and atmospheric “corruption” predispose to epidemics and endemic complaints in dense populations. Framed within contemporary French hygienic thought the dissertation reflects the transitional moment between traditional miasma theory and emerging more systematically physiological understandings of environment and disease. ; 25.4 x 18.5 cms; 22 pages . Didot Jeune unknown
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