Lehrbuch der Pathologischen Mykologie; Vorlesungen fur arzte und Studierende. Mit 73 grosstentheils nach eigenen Praparaten des Verfassers ausgefuhrten Original-Abbildungen im Text, davon 24 in Farbendruck.

Braunschweig:: Harald Bruhn, 1888., 1888. First edition. Dedicated to Dr. Hay. 8vo. [2], IX, 618, 24 pp. Pages 29-34 with slight damage to upper corner (no text loss). Early half black calf, black cloth; joints cracked, spine ends worn, rubbed. Ownership signature of Worval[?] Harvey Purce, MD, 31 Washington Street, Chicago, Illinois. Very good. Important textbook on pathological mycology written by Baumgarten, a prominent German pathologist. The book, begun in 1886, was "was a well-regarded, exhaustive study of bacteriology, in which its botanical, chemical, and pathological aspects are discussed in the form of lectures." An expanded second edition was issued in 1890. The author studied at the university of Leipzig under Christian Wilhelm Braune (1831-1892) and Ernst Leberecht Wagner (1829-1888), where eventually he took his medical degree in 1873. He furthered his education under Ernst Neumann (1834-1918) at the University of Konigsberg. In 1882 Baumgarten described the tuberculosis bacillus, the same year as did Robert Koch. :: British Medical Journal, March 1, 1890, pp. 486-7.