[MANUSCRIPT—MEDICINE]. [GANNERON]. “Manuel pratique de medecine pratique… Compose par les soins, et a l'usage du sieur Ganneron ancien chirurgien-major d'infanterie m[ai]tre en l'art de chirurgie aggrege a Dijon en 1760 consultant en l'une et l'autre partie de la medecine-pratique.” [France, Dijon?], 1760.

329 leaves, 8vo (170 x 108mm). In French. Written in a small cursive in brown ink. With engraved frontispiece fragment with medical vignettes cut from a medical book dated 1621 (with title area removed) mounted on front free endpaper verso facing text opening. (Some minor browning and spotting, minor worming to title at gutter margin.) Bound in contemporary French mottled calf gilt (some wear to extremities).

Ganneron’s treatise is divided into three sections: Physiology, Pathology and Therapeutics. The first section provides a detailed description of the major organs of the human body and the functions of each (pp. 1-64); the second section begins with general description and names of different illnesses, then particular illness or nosology of diseases (pp. 65-434); the third part has separate pagination (pp. 1-195), and discusses the different regimes that can be used in treating diseases or maladies, with separate chapters for each type of treatment (i.e., solutions, wine, vapors, etc.). At end is a separate section by Mlle Reyne D’Issurtitte entitled “Vin purgattif et Sudorifique Contre Lhidropisie,” which provides information on the use of different wine concoctions in treating various maladies, including numerous recipes. An additional prescription recipe is mounted on rear pastedown.

Selections from Antiquariat Botanicum, Dr. Eugene Vigil