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Dissertation sur les effets du mouvement et du repos dans les maladies chirurgicales.

Paris: Vve. Vallet-La-Chapelle, 1779.

Includes a description of Pott’s disease, with post-mortem findings, better than Pott’s own account. This is an important early work on the effect of movement and of rest in the treatment of joint conditions. English translation, 1790.

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Entry Number#4303
Permanent Linkhttps://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/5469
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External URLdissertation-sur-les-effets-du-mouvement-et-du-repos-dans-les-maladies-chirurgicales

Geographic Context

Publication place: Paris