A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera; Including an Historical Account of Its Origin and Progress, to the Present Period
Hartford: H. and F. J. Huntonton, 1832. First Edition. Octavo, 368 pages, publisher's original blue cloth-covered boards with gilt-lettered spine label. Illustrated with a large fold-out frontispiecce map. An important early American medical work on cholera, epidemic disease, epidemiology, infectious disease, and public health. Brigham traces the origins and geographical spread of cholera and compiles contemporary medical observations concerning its symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment at a time when the disease was spreading rapidly throughout Europe and North America. The volume offers valuable insight into early nineteenth-century medicine, medical theory, epidemic response, and the developing understanding of disease transmission before the acceptance of germ theory. Brigham later became a prominent American physician and superintendent of the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. A notable 1832 American medical title of particular interest to collectors of medical history, cholera and epidemic disease, public health, epidemiology, and nineteenth-century science. Some fraying to rear hinge, loss to upper corner of the title page, hinges cracked, foxing and discoloration, previous owner's inscription, else in good + condition. Item #578
Price: $250.00