A new and rational explanation of the diseases peculiar to infants and mothers: with obvious suggestions for their prevention and cure.

London:: John Churchill, 1860., 1860. 16 cm Small 8vo. xiv, [2], 128 pp. Original brown publisher's blind-stamped cloth; lacks spine, corners showing, shaken. Pages are somewhat brittle or browned. As is. Spine partially replaced with kozo, corners showing. Pages are somewhat brittle or browned. As is. Errata on p. [1]. Seven rubber-stamps (title (twice), pp. 1, 41, 57 (marginal tear), 65, 128), & bookplate, ex-library copy. "The substance of the following pages formed the subjects of two papers which I had the honour of reading to the Harveian Society of London in the early part of the past year. One of them, entitled "A new theory of the diseases of infants and the puerperal state;" the other, "On light the only cause of purulent ophthalmia of infants." Short abstracts of both were published in the medical journals." [preface].