WICKHAM, Louis and Paul DEGRAIS.
Le Radium son emploi dans le Traitement du Cancer des angiomes, chéloïdes, tuberculoses locales et d'autres affections... Avec 53 figures dans le texte.
Paris: J.-B. Baillière et fils, 1913.
8vo (180 × 130 mm.), pp. 96. 53 clinical illustrations from photographs to text, other small diagrams. Original pale blue morocco-grain cloth, lettered in black on upper and lower covers, publishers' adverts printed on pale green paper as endpapers. Rubbed and lightly soiled with small, light water stain to upper cover. Half-title inscribed by Degrais 'A Monsieur le Docteur Vannier / Souvenir confraternal / 7 Juillet 1914 / P Degrais.' A good copy and an excellent association.
First edition of this pioneering text in radiotherapy, issued as part of Les Actualités Médicales series, this copy inscribed by Paul Degrais to a leading French homeopath, Léon Vannier. Wickham, a French dermatologist and pioneer of radium therapy, began treating tumours and gynaecological conditions with radium in 1908. He and his younger colleague Degrais were among the first clinicians to treat human conditions with 'radiumtherapy' having obtained radium from the Curies. Wickham died in 1913, several months before his colleague Degrais inscribed this copy to Vannier. The work also appeared in an English translation printed in London in the same year. It was preceded by the larger work Radiumthérapie; instrumentation, technique, traitement des cancers, chéloïdes, naevi, lupus, prurits, névrodermites, eczémas, applications gynécologiques (Paris, 1909).
£200.00
US$397.58*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008