L’art de prévenir le cancer au sein, chez les femmes qui touchent à leur époque critique
Paris, Crochard, & Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1812.
In-8 de XVI et 448 pages ; demi-basane brune de l'époque, pièce de titre (manque de cuir en queue et coiffe supérieure et mors légèrement fendus). Item #4530
Édition originale, peu courante, de ce texte fondateur sur la prévention du cancer du sein.
« Facing a rather incurable disease, the French physician Louis-Joseph-Marie Robert (1771-1850) pointed out, first, the importance of breast cancer prevention. […] In 1812, Robert published a book on breast cancer prevention (L’art de prévenir le cancer du sein) re-introducing an old concept, that prevention is better than cure. In his work, he develops his own concept on cancer pathogenesis and the method of prevention based on cancer etiology. He mentions that breast cancer is developed due to an inflammation provoked or from local trauma either from suppuration of internal genitalia, just like his contemporary distinguished physician François-Joseph-Victor Broussais (1772- 1838). […] Robert enumerates the available, specific and general treatment options, including vegetable diet, laxatives, and appetizers that they target to decrease inflammation but he admits the increased rate of treatment failure. Furthermore, he points out that the promise of physicians to cure cancer, could be undoubtedly illusory and chimerical, while the key of treatment is the prevention based on bloodletting leeches. […] Robert adopts the leeching method of Broussais, as a cornerstone in his prevention treatment against breast cancer. […] The real message of Robert’s cases is the idea of prevention in a time period that all physicians were attempting to treat cancer. Today, two centuries after Robert’s method, prevention is the cornerstone of breast cancer control focusing on healthier lifestyle, early detection, preventive medicine and genetic research. » (Marianna Karamanou, George Androutsos, Louis-Joseph-Marie Robert (1771-1850) and his method for the prevention of breast cancer, J. BUON. 2021 Jan-Feb ; 26 (1) : 284-287.)
Intérieur très propre.
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