Rengger, Albrecht (1764-1835)

Traité de pathologie séméiotique. At the end of the text: 'À Berne le Premier Vendémiaire, an 7 de la république françoise [22 September, 1798]'. Notes of lectures by an anoymous student at the Inselspital at the beginning of the 'Helvetic Republic' [1798-1815], under French domination. Produced in Berne.

1798

1 volume 357 pp. + 6 ll. (last bl.). 4to. 201/2 × 16 cm. Original boards. A title-page and two leaves at the end of the text have been cut out. Lettered on the spine 'Pathologie interne I'.

Purchased 1930.

According to E. Hintzsche's 'Sechshundert Jahre Krankenpflege im Berner Inselspital', 1954, p. 313, Dr. Rengger was lecturer on 'Pathologie, mit der Lehre von den Krankenheitszeichen'. He was also Minister of the Interior to the newly-formed Republic.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).