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Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent le plus communement les gens de mer … On a joint quelques observations sur la méthode la plus sûre de secourir les noyés, et de traiter les fièvres de l’Isle Saint-Domingue.

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Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent le plus communement les gens de mer ... On a joint quelques observations sur la méthode la plus sûre de secourir les noyés
Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent le plus communement les gens de mer … On a joint quelques observations sur la méthode la plus sûre de secourir les noyés

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Essai sur les maladies qui attaquent le plus communement les gens de mer … On a joint quelques observations sur la méthode la plus sûre de secourir les noyés, et de traiter les fièvres de l’Isle Saint-Domingue.
G.M. (G. Mauran).
Chez J. Mossy, ( 1766), Marseille
16.5 cm., 360 pp.
Price: $1500

Translates as “Essay on the diseases which most commonly attack seafarers, containing a short & easy method for knowing them, curing them, & even preserving them… Some observations have been added on the surest method of helping the drowned and to treat the fevers of the island of Saint-Domingue…” Treating diseases and injuries at sea, including tropical diseases, with information on hygiene aboard ship. A rare book. Bound in mottled calf with gilt lozenge of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Toulouse, on the front board. Very good condition.

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