Facts, Observations, and Practical Illustrations Relative to Puerperal Fever, Scarlet Fever, Pulmonary Consumption, and Measles.

Hartford: Oliver Cooke and Sons, 1823. First American edition.

EARLY AMERICAN EDITION OF ENGLISH MONOGRAPH ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

9 inches tall lhardcover, brown cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of the Library of the University of Pennsylvania to front paste-down (withdrawal handstamp), i-vi, [1], 120 pp, i-iv, [4], 79 pp, 216 pp, 80 pp. Cover corners worn, library pocket to rear paste-down, browning to pages, binding tight, pages unmarked, very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1784 - 1829) was educated at Bishop's Wearmouth under a Scotch clergyman, Mr. Mason, and at Edinburgh where he graduated doctor of medicine in 1807. In 1814 he published his Facts and Observations relative to the Fever commonly called Puerperal, and two years later his Practical Illustrations of Typhus and other Febrile Diseases. In 1818 he moved to London. In 1819 Dr. Armstrong was appointed physician to the London Fever hospital. He was admitted a Licentiate of the College of Physicians 26th June, 1820, and the following year began lecturing on the principles and practice of medicine at Mr. Grainger's school in Webb-street. In 1826 he joined with Mr. Bennett in forming a school of medicine in Little Dean-street, and undertook the lectures on medicine, continuing to deliver his course on the same subject at Webb-street. These calls on his strength were more than he could bear; and in 1828 his health gave way, symptoms of pulmonary consumption declared themselves, and he died at his house in Russell-square 12th December, 1829, aged forty-five.