Saint-Domingue.

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Saint-Domingue.
- GILBERT (Nicolas-Pierre). Medical History of the French Army, in Santo Domingo, in the year ten; or Memoir on Yellow Fever, with an overview of the Medical Topography of this Colony. Paris, Gabon and Compie, De l'Imprimerie de Guilleminet, An XI - 1803. In-8, dark green half-maroquin with ivory vellum corners, covers covered with pink glue paper, smooth spine decorated with gold filets and bearing the title, edges speckled with red (modern binding in the old taste). Garrison-Morton, no. 9657. Original edition of the report of the yellow fever epidemic in Santo Domingo, unknown to Sabin. The yellow fever epidemic decimated two-thirds of the troops sent by Bonaparte to Santo Domingo in 1802 to overthrow Toussaint-Louverture and re-establish authority and slavery. The expedition was a failure. It resulted in the loss of the colony, which proclaimed its independence in 1804 under the name of Haiti. On the title, wet stamp of the Broussonne library, a family from Montpellier which included two medical brothers, Pierre Marie Auguste (1761-1807) and Jean Louis Victor (1771-1846). Some slight freckles.
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