SEMINAL WORK ON DERMATOLOGY

NOMAN, D. VAN HAREN.

Casuistique et diagnostic photographique des maladies de la peau.

Haarlem, Bohn, (1889-) 1900.

Large4to. In contemporary half calf with gilt lettering to spine. Extremities with wear. Spine miscoloured and edges of boards with scratches. Previous owner's (Dr. Gunnar Hagens) stamp to front free end-paper. The few first and last leaves a bit creased. Slightly evently browned in outer margin throughout, otherwise internally nice and clean. Inner hindge split after plate no. LIX.

(8), 6, [1 plate], 6, 6, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 8, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 2, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 11, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 10, [1 plate], 18, [1 plate], 6, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 14, [1 plate], 7, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 4, [1 plate], 5, [1 plate], 3, [1 plate], 4 [1 plate]. 

Complete with 93 photos (94 counting plate 41 as two, since two photos are fused into one) on 60 plates. 


First and only edition of Noman’s semial work on dermatology being one of the very earliest to use photography to improve the study of dermatology and to help doctors and students in recognizing the various types of skin diseases.

 “Dirk van Haren Noman (1854-1896) succeeded Chanfleury in 1886. He accepted his position with a lecture entitled “The concept of disease in the doctrine of Dermatology”. He had a comprehensive knowledge of histopathology and bacteriology and dedicated his laboratory to their study. Developments in the relatively new medium of photography allowed him to publish a collection of dermatological images in 1889 that ultimately resulted in a standard work “Casuistique et diagnose photographique des maladies de la peau” (The present) - French still being the European language of science at the time. By this period, dermatology had increasingly become a discipline of external etiological factors and external therapeutic modalities. This is an important co-factor in explaining the rather eccentric position of dermatology, resulting in a certain distance from other medical specialisms still felt to this day. After Van Haren Noman’s death in 1896 the Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases was temporarily transferred to the Wilhelmina Gasthuis due to a lack of space at the Binnengasthuis.” (Menke, Dutch contributions to dermatology).

Not in Garrison & Morton.

Order-nr.: 61462

DKK 15.000,00