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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 Excerpt: ... plants of Piedmont; and his " Flora Pedemontana " will secure for him a lasting reputation as a botanist. Loeffling has dedicated Allionia, a genus of plants belonging to the natural order Nictaginacea, to his memory. (Ersch und Gruber, Allgem. Encyclop.; Adelung, Supp. to Jocher's Allgem. Oelehrten-Lexicon; Allioni's Worhs.) E. L. ALLIOT, PIERRE, was born in the early part of the seventeenth century at Bar-leDuc, of a noble but fallen family. He practised medicine there with a good reputation, and invented, about the year 1656, a new preparation of arsenic for the cure of cancerous and other malignant ulcers, which was for many years very celebrated. He was invited to Paris in 1665 by Louis XIV., that he might employ the remedy upon the queen, Anne of Austria, who was suffering from cancer of the breast; but his treatment produced more pain than benefit, and was believed to have accelerated the progress of the disease. He was rewarded however by a liberal pension from the king, and it was continued to one of his sons, who, at the king's desire, published the method of preparing the medicine. The works of Pierre Alliot were--" Nuntius profligati sine ferro et igne carcinomatis, missus, ducibus itinere Hippocrate et Galeno," Bar-le Due, 1664, 12mo.; and "Epistolaad D. B. de cancro apparente," Bar-le-Duc, 1664, 12mo. In the former, which was also published in the Acta Hafniensiaof 1672, he maintains that cancer depends on an acrid acid humour obstructed in a gland, and that it can be cured only by an equally powerful alkali, such as his remedy was. Its mode of operation, he 'says, was to destroy and absorb the acrid humour, and to convert the ichorous ulcer into a dry slough, which on separating left a clean and healing surface....


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130551952
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 410
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130551954
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 730 gr


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