[MANETTE - MEDECINE]. Set of 8 volumes including: CHAPPON, P - Lot 457

[MANETTE - MEDECINE]. Set of 8 volumes including: CHAPPON, Pierre. Traité historique des dangers de la vaccine ; suivi d'observations et de réflexions sur le rapport du Comité central de vaccine. Published in Paris by Demonville et soeurs in 1803. In octavo / In-8 (21cm) format. Brown calf. Spine decorated with gilt fleurons. Later binding. 576 pages. Light scattered foxing and small worm work on last pages. First edition of Chappon's early 19th-century critique of vaccination. "I have acquired incontestable proofs of the dangers of vaccination, without having sought them out as a hateful man." The author in foreword". Sold with other medical volumes: Traité de l'affection calculeuse by Dr. CIVIALE (1838 with handwritten bookplate); Les Compte-rendus du 18ème Congrès de la Société internationale de chirurgie (1959); Les Procès verbaux du 17ème Congrès de la Société internationale de chirurgie (1957); Traité élémentaire des fièvres by CASTAN (1864 with author's tribute on title page); Traité d'accouchements by CAZEAUX (1841 original edition and 1845); Nova medicinae elementa by CAPURON (1815). Together in good condition.