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Armand Després is a former chief surgeon of the Hospitals of Paris and deputy of the Seine.
A specialist in venerology and prostitution, he was hostile to Pasteur's discoveries on asepsis, "he extolled the merits of dirtiness" and liked to say: "It is better to bring the maggot into the wound, the maggot has good, it eats the vibrio" -
Armand Després - Iconographic Treaty Of Ulceration And Ulcers Of The Cervix Of The Uterus - 1870
Good condition of the binding, work in its original brown half-leather, good condition of the covers and the spine, rubbing from use, spine with raised bands, gilt title -
Good condition inside, seven superb plates of lithographs out of text colored at the end of the book, marbled flyleaves -
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