2 Volumes In 8vo, "the Electricity Of The Human Body" By Abbé Bertholon, Paris 1786, 6 Plates

A rare and illustrated treatise by Abbé de Bertholon in two volumes, bound in mottled calfskin, octavo format, illustrated with 7 engraved plates. Printed in Paris by Croulbois, rue des Mathurins, and in Lyon by Bernuset, rue Mercière. 1786. "The Electricity of the Human Body" in states of health and illness; a work awarded a prize by the Academy of Lyon; in which the Electricity of the atmosphere, its influence and effects on animal health, the medicinal virtues of Electricity, modern discoveries, and the different methods of electrification are discussed; with a large number of intaglio engravings. By M. l'Abbé Bertholon, Professor of experimental physics of the Estates-General of Languedoc, of the Royal Academies of Sciences of Montpellier, of Lyon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Béziers, Marseille, Nîmes, Rouen, Toulouse, Valence, Madrid, Rome, Hesse-Hamburg, Lausanne, &c, &c.