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Hardcover, octavo size volume bound in dark brown top grain genuine cowhide, with bound in silk ribbon marker, marbled end leaves in a period design and all edges gilt. Cover design and production by Max M. Stein, with raised spine and covers stamped in 22kt gold. 438 pages. Illustrated with a suite of eight full page plates appended at rear. Special facsimile limited edition printed for The Classics of Medicine Library (1979), First edition thus, prepared from an original 1821 edition, furnished to the Publisher courtesy of The Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine. Previous subscriber’s book-plate not present albeit others in this collection of The Classics of Medicine Library from the same private collection indicate that this is copy 921 of an unspecified limitation. Laennec’s work proved a major milestone in the advancment of the diagnosis of diseases of the chest,shifting “medicine from speculative symptom-tracking to objective, localized anatomical diagnosis. His use of “mediate auscultation” was a direct precursor to the modern stethoscope. A pristine, gift quality copy. As new.