Rare treatise on tetanus in America, inscribed by the author Manuscript The French West Indian slave

The French West Indian slave trade had primarily shifted towards Saint-Domingue since 1763

and these papers form part of the first serious efforts to survey Saint-Domingue systematically

Van Nierop et al

and first in the hearts of his countrymen

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Rare treatise on tetanus in America, inscribed by the author Manuscript The French West Indian slaveLouis Valentin (c. 1758 1829). Coup il sur les diffrens modes de traiter le ttanos en Amrique. Paris, Laurens an, 1811. 8. 62 pp. Sewn as issued, in original wrappers. Inscribed by the author to Dr Robert. Rare first edition of this important treatise on tetanus by Louis Valentin, formerly chief physician to the French armies in Haiti (Saint Domingue) and later director of the hospitals of Virginia. Valentin surveys the methods of treatment observed