From the Writings of
Bretonneau, Guersant, Trousseau, Bouchut, Empis, and Daviot

The Classics of Pediatrics Library
Gryphon Editions
Facsimile

Author Pierre Bretonneau , 1778 – 1862, French physician. He performed (1825) the first successful tracheotomy for laryngeal diphtheria, wrote a treatise (1826) distinguishing between scarlet fever and diphtheria (which he named), described typhoid fever, and stated (1855) the germ theory of disease (which later became established largely through Pasteur’s work). Also includes writings of Louis-Benoit Guersant (1777-1848), Armand Trousseau (1801-1867), J.-Eugene Bouchut (1818-1891), Georges-Simonis Empis (1824-1913), and D. Z. Daviot.

Selected and Translated by: Robert Hunter Semple, M.D.

Publisher: The Classics of Pediatrics Library , Gryphon Editions (c. 1994) Facsimile from the 1859 translated edition.

Format/Condition: NEW, unread, leather volume is in fine condition. 407 pages. Measures approx. 6 × 9”

Description: Diptheria was given its name by Pierre Bretonneau, the chief physician to the hospital of Tours, who had observed in the 1818-1820 outbreak of malignant sore throat in the city. Owing to the epidemic’s high morality, he performed numerous postmortem examinations and determined that croup and malignant angina were the same malady, identical to Samuel Bard’s description of angina suffocative.

The most prominent advocate of Bretonneau’s opinion was his student Armand Trousseau, who is represented in this volume along with Guersant, Bouchut, Empis, and Daviot.

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