BESNIER, E., FOURNIER, A. a.o. secr.gen. H. Feulard Le musee de l'hospital Saint-Louis. Iconographie des maladies cutanees et syphilitiques avec texte explicatif. Paris: Reuff, 1895
FIRST EDITION., Folio, [2], vi, 348 pp.
With half-title and 50 coloured plates. Contemporary half-morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. , First edition. This fascinating work contains some of the finest coloured illustrations of skin diseases, taken from moulages at Le Musée de l'hopital Saint-Louis. The Museum was founded by Devergie in 1865, and during his 25-year long career, he commissioned water colour paintings of the major skin diseases for use in his lectures. The paintings were later supplemented by photographs and moulages, of which 1800 were produced by Italian artist M. Baretta, who devised an internal colouring technique whereby colours are applied in between layers of wax, with the effect being one of transparency and greater similarity to the colour of human skin. Attention was paid to portrayal of the various separate lesions, as opposed to facial expressions. The authors of the text were senior doctors at the Hopital Saint-Louis. Besnier (1831-1909) presided over the Fourth International Congress of Dermatologists, held in Paris in 1900. His monographs on psoriasis, atopic dermatitis and his work on eczema entitle him to his place as the leading French dermatologist of his time. Fournier (1832-1914), a pupil of Ricord, was chief of the venereal disease section at the Hospital, and recognized as the world's leading authority on syphilis.
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