Publisher:
Boston, Isaac R. Butts: 1836
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF LANDMARK STUDY OF TYPHOID FEVER, 1836. Two volumes 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, vii, 395; xi, 462 pages, publisher's pebbled green cloth boards, gilt titles to spines, corners and edges rubbed, previous owner signature to front free endpaper, otherwise unmarked, very good. PIERRE-CHARLES-ALEXANDRE LOUIS (1787 - 1872) was a French clinician and pathologist known for his studies on tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and pneumonia, as well as for the development of epidemiology and the clinical trial. Louistaught at the Hotel-Dieu and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, in Pari...
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