Researches on Primary Pathology, and the Origin and Laws of Epidemics; in Two Volumes

Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1858. First edition.

1848 COMPILATION OF MEDICAL HISTORY OF ANTEBELLUM AMERICA; PRIMARILY INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

8 ½ inches tall hardcover, recent green cloth binding, gilt title to spine [incorrectly labeled as Vol. I only—actually 2 volumes bound as one], 5 endpapers bound in front and back. Vol. I, i-xvi, 312 pp; Vol. II, 336 pp. CONTENTS: Vol. I, Epidemic Cholera, Cholera Infantum, Nursing Sore Mouth, Medical Topography of the State of Illinois, Malaria Epidemics of 1835, 1855, Cholera, Bilious Fever, Scorbutus, Scurvy; Vol. II, Scorbutic Diathesis, Cholera, Chemistry of Medicines, Climatic Influences, Constitution of Seasons, Laws of Epidemics, Yellow Fever, Doctrine of the Unity of Disease. Light foxing to preliminary pages, light browning to text pages, very good in custom archival mylar cover.

MOSES LOWMAN KNAPP (1799 -1879), member of the first class graduated at Jefferson Medical College (1826), said that his "thesis was the first handed in to the Dean, the first examined, and he was understood by the professors and the class to be the first graduate." His thesis on "Apocynum Cannabinum (Indian Hemp)" was the first thesis published by Jefferson Medical College. He was professor of materia medica and president of the College of physicians and Surgeons of the University of Iowa, also professor of materia medica in the Indiana Medical College.