Author: TARDIEU, Ambroise.
Title: Etude Medico-Legale et Clinique sur l'Empoisonnement ... deuxieme edition, revue et considerablement augmentee.
Description: Paris, Bailliere 1875. Octavo quarter morocco (marbled paper sides chipped at edges); xx,1236pp, illustrations in the text. Some spotting. ¶ First published in 1867 (Garrison-Morton 1745). Professor Tardieu has enlarged and updated, pillaging the literature for case studies. Aptly termed by M. Plantureux as a 'polygraphe de l'horreur et de mauvais gout', Tardieu is here his most respectable and respected.

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