Nouveau Careme de Penitence

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VG, 1871. In modern quarter calf, brown cloth, corners rubbed. Spine, gilt titles. Internally, brown endpapers, original blue covered soft paper pamphlet bound in, publishers label to verso cover page, half title, [4], 94 pp, [1] table, [1], [1], bookp[late to fpd, printed in Paris by D Jouaust, Rue S.-Honore, 338, from the original which was also printed in Paris but in 1525. Part of the Collection Choisie des Anciens Syphiliographes series. Béthencourt was a French physician who practiced medicine in Rouen. He is best remembered for coining the term venereal disease. He published a book called Cartme de penitence. Here he uses medical and moral judgments regarding the disease. In this treatise he creates an argument as to whether guaiacum or mercury is the best cure, and to what level of suffering a patient should have to endure in order to "be taught a necessary lesson". See Wiki.