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Om spedalskhed. Udgivet efter Foranstaltning af den Kongelige Norske Regjerings Department for det Indre. 1 vol. and atlas.

Publication Details

Bergen, Norway: trykt hos C. Grondahl, 1847 CE.

First modern description of leprosy (“Danielssen-Boeck disease’’). Danielssen, physician to the leprosy hospital at Bergen, was the founder of scientific leprology. The extremely rare Atlas  consists of 24 plates and two pages of text. French translation, Paris, J. B. Baillière, 1848; the atlas was also reproduced in French, Rio de Janeiro, in 1946.

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Entry Number#2434
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Geographic Context

Publication place: Bergen, Norway

Mentioned in annotation: Rio de Janeiro; Paris