Des Maladies De La Peau, ParticulièRement De Celles Du Visage, Er Des Affections Morales Qui Les Acompangnent ; Leur Origine, Leur Description, Leur Traitement ; . Retz, Noel Dermatologie

Nouvelle Edition, corrigée & augmentée par des résultats de nouvelle Observations, avic Fig. - A Paris, Chez Méquignon, 1786, kl.-8°, XXII, pp.23-168, 1 gafalt. Kupferstichtafel, Ledereinband d.Zt. mit reicher Rückenvergoldung; feines Expl. Zweite, erweiterte und erste illustrierte Ausgabe! Noel Retz (1758-1810) was born in Arras and died in Paris. He studied medicine in Paris, advanced to military physician, joining Marquis de Lafayette on his sailing tour to America, and finally settled in Paris. Lafayette was helpful that Retz became personal physician of the King. The 5 figures of the folding plate depict "Conrétions charnues trouvées dans la Veine-porte de personnes attaguées de maladies de peu représentes de grandeur naturelle." These are thrombi of the vena portae, originally described by Balfour and Stewart. Often following tumors (pancreas carcinoma, liver tumors, or hypercoagulability. Hirsch/Hübotter list several of his works, including the ones on metereology in medicine, mesmerism, human electricity, the effects on lightening and epidemics, but not the above work. Hirsch/Hübotter IV, 772