[TIN-TACK SIGN BY BEHÇET / CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS] حلب ویا شرق چیبانلرنیڭ دیاترمی ایله تداویسی / Haleb veyâ şark çıbânlarının diyatermi ile tedâvisi. [i.e., Treatment of Aleppo boils, or Oriental boils, by diathermy]

BEHÇET, HULÛSI (1889-1948).

Ikbâl Kitabhânesi Sahibi Hüseyin / Kader Matbaasi, Dersaadet- Istanbul, 1925.

Original greenish wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 16 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 23 p. Fading to edges of covers, stain on rear cover, wrinkle pages. Overall, a fair/good copy.

Uncommon second edition of this tractate, presenting Behçet’s hypothesis on the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis by diathermy. During WW1, through his studies on soldiers arriving from Aleppo to Edirne in 1916 who were diagnosed with Leishmaniasis, he introduced the Tin-tack sign (çivi arazı). In 1923, he proposed the cauterization of the lesions by diathermy as a method for the treatment of Leishmaniasis.

Turkish dermatologist Hulûsi Behçet described a systemic inflammatory disease of the blood vessels in 1937, coining the term Behçet’s disease.

Özege 6668/2, TBTK 5781. As of January 2026, OCLC locates seven institutional holdings in the US libraries (777181134).