| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM |  |
| OLOF EDLUND Antiquarian Bookseller STOCKHOLM | |
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First edition. Includes a listing of some 3500 patients, with their full names, places of birth, treatments, etc. Continued by the author's Undersøgelser angaaende syphilis. Carl Wilhelm Boeck [1808-75], eminent Norwegian dermatologist and syphilologist, was the first to describe Norwegian itch, scabies crustosa (Boeck's scabies). "From 1850 Boeck had his own skin clinic where he began treating syphilis with syphilisation in 1852. This method is a form of vaccination against syphilis. It consisted in repeated cutaneous inoculations of secrete from soft chancre (which was believed to be the same disease), until inoculation caused no further reaction. This concept of vaccine therapy for syphilis originated with Joseph Alexandre Auzias-Turenne (1812-1870), who first attempted this method on animals, particularly monkeys, in 1844. Auzias-Turenne was never allowed to try his method on humans in a French hospital but died still firmly believing in syphilisation. However, Auzias-Turenne's clinical studies probably influenced Louis Pasteur's (1822-1895) successful rabies post exposure vaccine trials. Another proponent of syphilisation was Casimiro Sperino (1812-1894) in Torino, who practised the method from about 1850. Boeck was the staunchest advocate of this treatment,in five languages, until his death"(Ole Daniel Enersen at www.whonamedit.com). |
| First edition. |
| $ 750 |
| * Proksch, 1, p. 254. |