CHARCOT, Jean-Martin (1825-93). De La Pneumonie Chronique.

CHARCOT, Jean-Martin (1825-93).  De la Pneumonie Chronique. Thèse Présentée au Concours pour l’ Agrégation (Section de Médecine et de Médecine Légale) et Soutenue a la Faculté de Médecine de Paris. Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1860. 8vo (222 x 141mm). Lithographed plate at the end (some staining and spotting). Original green printed wrappers. Provenance: old unidentified ink [?]monogram on title and upper wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune. FIRST EDITION of this thesis on pneumonia by one of the founders of modern neurology. He is perhaps chiefly remembered now for his controversial association with Louise Augustine Gleizes (b. 1861), a “hysteria” patient at the Salpâtrière Hospital in Paris who, in 1880, escaped from her confinement disguised as a man, never to be seen again.