MARIE, Pierre.
Contribution à l’étude et au diagnostic des formes frustes de la Maladie de Basedow.
Paris: Aux Bureaux du Progrès Médical [&] A. Delahaye et E. Lecrosnier…1883
8vo, 2 leaves, 85 pages, 2 leaves. Modern quarter buckram and marbled paper sides, paper label on spine. Inscribed on the half-title by the author: “A mon excellent ami Jardet, sauveur de la Salpêtrière. P. Marie”.
FIRST EDITION. “Marie’s thesis for the M.D. (1883) carried a graphic description of the tremor observed in the extended arms and fingers in persons with Graves’s disease — a phenomenon he had begun to study while a medical student” (Haymaker & Schiller, The founders of neurology, p. 476).
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