Item #35201 A Medical and Topographical History of the Cholera Morbus, including the Mode of Prevention and Treatment. With a Report read at the Royal Academy of Medicine, at Paris, Sept. 17, 1831. Raoul Henri Joseph. A. Sidney Doane Scouttetten, trans.

A Medical and Topographical History of the Cholera Morbus, including the Mode of Prevention and Treatment. With a Report read at the Royal Academy of Medicine, at Paris, Sept. 17, 1831.

Boston: Carter and Hendee, 1832. vi, [5]-100 pp. Illus. with 1 folding map. Sm. 4to. Modern half calf over marbled boards. First American edition. A very good copy, new endpapers, rebound, boards lightly rubbed, scattered foxing, map with small tears at folds and one paper tape repair. Amer. Imprints 14644. Cordasco 30-0787. Item #35201

First English translation of Scouttetten's pioneering study of the ravages of cholera. The author (1799-1871) was a famed French military surgeon, and professor at the School of Medicine in Strassburg, who was sent to Berlin in 1831.

Price: $200.00

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