FOUCROY, Antoine-François. La Médecine éclairée par les scie - Lot 221

FOUCROY, Antoine-François. La Médecine éclairée par les sciences physiques, ou Journal des découvertes. Relatives aux différentes parties de l'art de guérir. Published in Paris by Buisson in 1791. 2 volumes in-8, mahogany basane, smooth spines decorated with gilded fillets, blue title-pieces, speckled edges. 396 pp., 400 pp. Spines lightened, title-pieces missing, minor spotting to boards. Two volumes of the original edition of this medical periodical. Foucroy was one of the main contributors to the Chemical Revolution initiated by Lavoisier, with whom he collaborated. He also distinguished himself in politics, participating in the drafting of the cahiers du tiers-état during the Revolution, and was a member of the Conseil d'Etat under Napoleon Bonaparte. Pleasant books offering a broad panorama of the scientific news of their time.