Michel Cullerier's Lectures

Manuscript notes of 'Cours de Maladies Syphilitiques', a series of lectures given by Michel Cullerier (1758-1827), venereologist, at L'Hospice de Vénériens, Paris in year XI of the French revolutionary calendar i.e. the year beginning 23 September 1802. A loose note at f.15 from Cullerier to a Charles Despines suggests that the latter is the author (note dated 'deux vendémiaire an[née] onze' i.e. 24 September 1802). ff.1-20 [Lecture 1]: Introduction; Du chancre (syphilitic ulcers) ff.21-39 Lecture 2: Rhagades (elongated ulcerations); chancres ff.40-57 Lecture 3: Rhagades; chancres; pustules (pustules); végétations (lesions); poireaux (warty excrescences); bubons (inflammatory tumours of the lymphatic glands) ff. 58-77 Lecture 4: Bubons; loupes (tumours/cysts); concrétions osseuses (calculi); affections vénériennes des os (bone disorders); carie (bone ulceration) ff.78-97 Lecture 5: Carie; nécrose (necrosis/gangrene); douleurs (pains); onglade (in-growing toenails) et pelade (alopecia); tintement d'oreilles (tinnitus); epilepsie syphilitique (epilepsy); phthisies vénériennes (phthisis/tuberculosis)' ecoulemens [sic] vénériens (flux); accidens produits par le gonorrhée (gonorrhoea) ff. 98-117 Lecture 6: Phimosis et paraphimosis; traitement général de la maladie vénérienne ff. 118-135 Lecture 7: Various treatments; the volume ends with a brief literary and historical overview of venereal disease. f.136 blank

1802

1 volume 1 vol (136 ff.), 190 x 120mm and 1 loose insert

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