OPIUM FOR VENEREAL DISEASE

Della facoltà dell’oppio nelle malattie veneree, nuove ricerche cliniche …

Bergamo, dalla stamperia Antoine, 1788. 

8vo, pp. 60; woodcut vignette to title, page numbers within decorative frames; a few light marks; a very good uncut copy in contemporary carta rustica; some staining to covers; near contemporary ink inscription at foot of title ‘Proprieta dell’ S.R. Guardia di Finanza Pasolini Gio: Battista’ and a similar inscription inside rear cover.

£350

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Very rare first edition of this treatise on the use of opium in the treatment of venereal disease by the Bergamo physician Giuseppe Pasta (1742–1823). 

Pasta discusses the preferability of using opium over mercury and refers to the work of other writers on the subject, including the military surgeon Alexander Grant and the hygienist Johann Peter Frank.  He gives the case histories of several chronic sufferers whose conditions were cured with doses of opium, including a gentleman whose gonorrhoea resulted in painful erections and a lady with a vaginal ulcer.  In addition, he describes the preparation and administration of opium, as well as dosing. 

Pasta, cousin of the physician Andrea Pasta and student of the eminent anatomist Giovanni Battista Morgagni, has attracted recent scholarly attention as a pioneer of psychological medicine. 

No copies traced in the UK.  OCLC records only one copy in the US (NLM).  Blake, p. 340. 

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