SHIP FEVER, SO CALLED; ITS HISTORY, NATURE, AND BEST TREATMENT. THE FISKE FUND PRIZE DISSERTATION FOR 1849. BY ...M.D. MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDICAL IMPROVEMENT

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850. Original paper-covered boards [paper worn along spine and hinges], printed paper title label on front cover. Institutional bookplate, withdrawal and rubberstamp. 48pp, one tinted lithograph plate. Faint pencilled presentation inscription on front cover. Good+. Though known by different names, the disease is named for its appearance "on board emigrant ships, in the quarantine hospitals, and among emigrants newly arrived from Europe." Dr. Clark distinguishes the disease and its manifestations from typhoid fever, with which it frequently has been confused. FIRST EDITION. Sabin 13297n. Not in Eberstadt, Decker.