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Essai, et dissertation sur un moyen a employer avant quelques operations pour en diminuer la douleur
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Manuscript by Ambroise Tranquille Sassard, in French, on the treatment of pain in medicine that was published later in the October 1780 issue of Le Journal de Physique de l'Abbe Rozier. There is a handwritten note by Sassard that translates to "I was 28 years old when I wrote and published this dissertation."
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La méthode graphique dans les sciences expérimentales et particulièrement en physiologie et en médecine
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Marey's work on graphical recording, "used to depict physiological variables, such as the sphygmograph, cardiograph and myograph."--Rothschuh, History of physiology, p. 274.
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Fleuve Saint-Laurent, Représenté plus en détail que dans l'e'tendue de la Carte
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Latitude and Longitude lines for Quebec marked. See 093:352 for an English version of this map which attributes the data to D'Anville. Kashnor dates this map at ca. 1760. See 105:682M for another copy. Kershaw dates as 1755. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Device - lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Kershaw 625. Verso Text: MS note: 357.
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Fleuve Saint-Laurent, Représenté plus en détail que dans l'e'tendue de la Carte
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Kashnor notes, "Issued during the early part of the troubles regarding the encroachments, and supplementary to D'Anville's fine map on three sheets." Duplicate of 093:357M. Latitude and Longitude lines for Quebec marked. See 093:352 for an English version of this map which also attributes the data to D'Anville. Kashnor dates this map at [1755]. Kershaw notes as 1755. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Watermark: Device - lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. References: Kershaw 625. Verso Text: MS note: 682 37.
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Leçons sur la physiologie et la pathologie du système nerveux
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First edition of of the author's outstanding contributions to medical science. Bernard's work in neuophysiology includes the description of the origin and function of the cervical sympathetic system and examination of the vasomotor innervation of blood vessels. He also gives his description of "Horner's syndrome' as a condition due to lesion of the cervical sympathetic, offereing proof that the sympathetic governs the pupillary, vasomotor, sudomotor, and pilomotor functions. -- Rootenberg, 1987.
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Les Costes aux Environs de la Rivier en e de Misisipi. Descourvertes par Mr. de la Salle en 1683. et reconnues par Mr. le Chevallier d'Iberville en 1698 et 1699. par N. de Fer, Geographe de Monseigneur le Dauphin 1701
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the coast of Florida and westward to that part which is present-day Texas. The Chevallier d'Iberville was the famous commander of the expeditions that swept the Hudson's Bay from 1694 to 1698. In 1699 he had been created Chevallier of St. Louis, and is best remembered as the colonizer and founder of Louisiana, and died in 1706 at Havana, where he had called on a slaving expedition. The patent for Louisiana was afterwards granted to Antoine Crozat." Ms note: 1003 (on backing) Cartouche shows French fighters.. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: Leagues. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche.
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