Effets de la tisane caraïbe
Subtitle: proposée pour la guérison des maladies vénériennes
By: d'après le rapport de MM. de Saint-Leger, de Horne, Bacher & Roussel de Vauzesme, commissaires nommés par M. le lieutenant général de police
Contributors: Le Roux, Jean-Jacques, 1749-1832
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1779
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Sexually transmitted diseases; Medicine; Therapeutic use; Oral medication; Tea
Notes: Consists of case histories from various French medical establishments of experiments conducted with the "tisane" on inmates chosen from Bicêtre.  The "tisane," the invention of one Mondragon, is condemned as ineffective.

Bicêtre Hospital is located in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It  was originally planned as a military hospital, with construction begun in 1634. With the help of Vincent de Paul, it was finally opened as an orphanage in 1642. It was incorporated into the Hôpital Général in 1656. In 1823, it was called the Hospice de la Vieillesse Hommes. In 1885, it was renamed the Hospice de Bicêtre. In its history it has been used successively and simultaneously as an orphanage, a prison, a lunatic asylum, and a hospital. It is most icêtre is most famous as the Asylum de Bicêtre where Superintendent Philippe Pinel is credited as being the first to introduce humane methods into the treatment of the mentally ill, in 1793.

Signatures: A-F⁸ (A1 verso blank) G⁴ (-G4) (G3 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: J.J. Le Roux: bookplate on front pastedown.