BOUILLAUD (Jean-Baptiste). Traité clinique et physiologique de l'encéphalite, ou inflammation du cerveau, et des ses Suites, telles que de Ramollissement, la Suppuration, les Abcès, les Tubercules, le Squirrhe, le Cancer, etc.1825

Paris: chez J.-B Ballière, Libraire, First edition, xxiv, 350pp., old stamp on title, some foxing and light browning of the text, original printed wrappers, spine strengthened amateurishly with rice paper, uncut. Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud was a French physician who was born in Bragette, now part of Garat, Charente. He received his medical doctorate in 1823 and later was a professor at the Charité in Paris. "he was a shrewd observer and responsible for a number of important discoveries, among them the localization of the speech center in the left cerebral hemisphere, an observation first reported in this early treatise on brain diseases."—Heirs of Hippocrates. Wellcome II, p. 211; Heirs of Hippocrates, 1561.