CAZENAVE, P.L.A.

Traité des Maladies du Cuir Chevelu suivi de conseils hygiéniques sur les soins a donner a la chevelure.

Paris: Chez J.B. Baillière,... 1850. 8vo, pp. (iv), viii, 400, and 8 coloured lithographed plates of disorders of the scalp. Half-title. Nineteenth century green cloth. Personal stamp on front endpaper and foot of title, an excellent copy. FIRST EDITION. A classic book on a new disease, grey patch ringworm, by one of the masters of nineteenth century dermatology. “On April 29, 1840, Alphée Cazenave was called to a private elementary school in Paris to examine a group of 14 children afflicted with the new disease. Cazenave had not seen it before, and it baffled him at first, but not for long. From his studies on the children he not only defined the disease better than Mahon, but, with the insight and powers of observation characteristic of the truly superior clinician, he tied it in with other seemingly unrelated clinical facts as well. He related his experiences at the school in several places, but he summed them up best in 1850 in his Traité des Maladies du Cuir Chevelu (Treatise on the Diseases of the Scalp), a work that is one of the clinical classics of the middle years of the century” (Crissey & Parish pp. 100–102).

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