RACIBORSKI A[dam] - Traité de la menstruation, ses rapports avec l'ovulation, la fécondation, l'hygiène de la puberté et de l'âge critique, son role dans les différentes maladies, ses troubles et leur traitement. Paris 1868, J.-B. Baillière et Fils. 8, pp. XXIV, 631, plate 2, table ff. 1. psk. period binding.
Abrasions to edges of covers and spine, minor local browning of paper. Owner's signature. On the front pastedown a sticker of Parisian bookbinder Ch. de la Haas. A comprehensive work on the medical aspect of menstruation. A fold-out table shows the time of first menstruation in women living in different regions of Europe; the tables are reproduced in chromolithography.
A. Raciborski (1809-1871) - a doctor from Radom, author of medical works, November insurgent, emigrant. He studied medicine in Warsaw. "In the November Uprising he took part as a battalion doctor of the 4th p. of line infantry. On September 15, 1831 he was awarded the Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari. After the fall of the uprising [...] he got to France. Initially he stayed in Besançon, where he participated in the fight against the cholera epidemic, in 1833 he moved to Paris to finish his medical studies [...]. In Paris he made a name for himself as a noted practitioner [...]. He was Frederic Chopin's physician and provided advice to the Polish Ladies' Benevolent Society [...]. Raciborski published more than 80 papers, mainly on women's diseases, but also on anatomy, general pathology, venereology, auscultation, pediatrics, hematology, neurology, gastrology and lung diseases" (PSB). The author received a gold medal from the Academy of Sciences in Paris for the work presented here.
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