18TH CENTURY TREATISE ON LEAD PREPARATIONS AS TREATMENT FOR VARIOUS AILMENTS. 6 1/2 inches tall recent brown buckram binding, viii, 231 pages, gilt title on spine, new endpapers, title page browned and repaired with tape, remaining pages lightly foxed, otherwise very good. THOMAS GOULARD (1697-1784) was a French surgeon famous for Goulard's extract, a solution of lead acetate and lead oxide. REVIEW of TREATISE ON LEAD by J. H. Thompson, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 31:27-31, 1938: 'Thomas Goulard was demonstrator of anatomy and surgery, and later chirurgienmajor, at the Milita...
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