New And Most Effective Way To Treat Rheumatic Pains and Rheumatism (Novyiy i verneyshiy sposob lecheniya lomotyi i revmatizma).

Cadet de Vaux, Antoine-Alexis

Published by H. Ginze printing house, Saint Petersburg, 1830

About this Item

Translated from German to Russian by Mark Magaziner, a municipal doctor of Kiev and honorary member of the Altenburg Union of Medical Art. St. Petersburg. Antoine Cadet de Vaux (1743 1828) was a French chemist who also explored agriculture. Starting as a pharmacist he later focused on experiments performed at his estate aimed at improving the agriculture and manufacturing industries. His innovative offers included using steam to wash clothing, acclimating coffee trees and tobacco, and using prune branches of fruit trees to prevent their exhaustion and allow for an increase in the number and size of fruits. He also invented a lactometer. In 1777 he was one of the founders of the daily newspaper "Journal de Paris". In 1791 and 1792 Cadet was the President of the Seine and Oise Departments. As far back as the times of the Republic he was appointed as the Salubrity Inspector of Paris. Bonaparte, when he served as the First Consul, made Cadet the Inspector of the Val-de-Grāce Hospital. The work New And Most Effective Way To Treat Rheumatic Pains and Rheumatism is in the second edition corrected and updated with a notice from the medical journal of the regimental infirmary of the Tver Dragoon Regiment". This study provides an overview of the distinctive features of rheumatic aches and rheumatism and different ways to treat them. Moreover the book includes the opinion of ancient and modern doctors about the rheumatic pains" and "proved compelling benefits of a new method" - hydrotherapy. Octavo, 104 pages. Slight traces of moisture on the introduction page before the title and at the end of the copy. Restoration of the original paperback. Signatures with deckle edges, not trimmed. Several time spots on the title.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: New And Most Effective Way To Treat Rheumatic Pains and Rheumatism (Novyiy i verneyshiy sposob lecheniya lomotyi i revmatizma).
• Publisher: H. Ginze printing house, Saint Petersburg
• Publication Date: 1830
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Russian Antiquarian
  • Russia