1835 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENT & PUBLIC HEALTH. On the Influence of Atmosphere and Locality; Change of Air and Climate; Seasons; Food; Clothing; Bathing; Exercise; Sleep; Corporeal, and Intellectual Pursuits, &c, &c. on Human Health; constituting Elements of Hygiene

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. First edition.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION EARLY AMERICAN MANUAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH BY ROBLEY DUNGLISON, PHYSICIAN TO THOMAS JEFFERSON. 8 1/2 inches tall hardcover, full leather binding, spine with black leather label, gilt title, front paste-down with residue from removal of bookplate, i-xi, 514 pp. Wear to covers, light foxing to preliminary and end pages, binding tight, unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover.

ROBLEY DUNGLISON (1798 - 1869) was an English physician who moved to America to join the first faculty of the University of Virginia. He was personal physician to Thomas Jefferson and considered the "Father of American Physiology". Robley Dunglison was born in Keswick, Cumbria, England. He studied medicine in London, Edinburgh, and Paris. He obtained his M. D. from the University of Erlangen, Germany, in 1823. In 1824, Thomas Jefferson and the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia commissioned Francis Walker Gilmer to find professors in England for his new University. Gilmer offered the anatomy and medicine professorship to Dunglison. While at UVA, Dunglison published his landmark text Human Physiology (1832), which established his reputation as the "Father of American Physiology." In 1832, Dunglison moved to the University of Maryland. Three years later Dunglison became Chair of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence at the Jefferson Medical College (JMC) in Philadelphia, where he spent the rest of his career. In his autobiography, Robley Dunglison wrote, "Before I left Virginia I had contemplated to write a work on hygiene, and when the subject, at my suggestion, was added to the duties of my chair in Baltimore it became still more desirable to have a textbook on the subject, none suitable being to be found in the language. The work was now proceeded with and it appeared at the commencement of the year 1835. Its title sufficiently indicated the subjects embraced in it.-On the influence of Atmosphere and Locality, Change of Air and Climate; Seasons; Food; Clothing; Bathing; Exercise; Sleep, Corporeal and Intellectual Pursuits, etc. on Human Health; constituting Elements of Hygiene; and it consisted of 514 pages 8vo. A supplementary chapter :ontained a deposition made by me, involving questions regarding the effect of draining a malarious soil; a table of the mean temperature and of the seasons in different places of America, Europe, etc.-Tables of the temperature of St. Augustine, etc. during certain months;-the mean temperature etc. of corresponding months in certain winter retreats; the temperature etc. of Campeche, and a Table of the comparative digestibility of different alimentary substances. The deposition on the malarious soil is especially interesting as containing the answers to questions put to me by both plaintiff and defendant; the parties having mutually agreed, that my answers should be read as evidence, without being put in a legal form. ... There were 1500 copies printed of the first edition."--S.X. Radbill, ed. Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, Trans. Am.Philos. Soc. 53:72-74, 1963.