Objects / Philadelphia's Medical World
A Treatise on Malignant Intermittants
YF-2023.008
ALIBERT, J[ean] -L[louis] (-Maire).
A Treatise on Malignant Intermittants. [sic].
Physician to the Hospital of St. Louis, Member of the School of Medicine of Paris, of the Medical Society of Emulation, Associate of the Royal Academy of Medicine of Madrid, of the Academy of Sciences of Turin, of the society of Physical Sciences of Gottengen, of the Royal College Of Medicine of Stockholm, &c.
Third Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged, Translated from French, With an Introductory Discourse, Occasional Notes, and an Appendix by Charles Caldwell, M.D. &c.
Phila: Pry and Kammerer, 1807. *111, [1], 263, 116pp. Plate.
Scarce in commerce with only or recorded sale at auction in 1979.
Jean-Louis-Marie Alibert -- often called the father of dermatology, chief physician of the Saint Louis Hospital in Paris, and physician to King Louis XVIII -- enters the Philadelphia debate through Caldwell's translation, which adds an appendix on the 1805 Philadelphia epidemic. Only one auction record survives for this title, from 1979. The translation is itself evidence of the debate's Atlantic reach: Caldwell imported a European framework to evaluate an American controversy.
- Accession
- YF-2023.008
- Date
- Philadelphia: Pry and Kammerer, 1807
- Author / maker
- Alibert, Jean-Louis-Marie; translated by Caldwell, Charles
- Condition
- Orig, full leather, morocco spine label, gilt-ruled spine bands. Boards rubbed, sligat foxing throughout, else very good.
- References
- Miner 6
- Notes
- Jean-louis-Maire Alibert often referred to as the father of dermatology, was chief physician of the Saint Louis Hospital Paris and physician to King Louis XVIII. The first English translation of Albert's collected medical journals including dissertations on Yellow Fever and its effects. Additionally, this is the first edition to include Caldwell's appendix in which writes of Philadelphia's 1805 Yellow Fever epidemic. Caldwell' research demonstrates the strides the medical community had take to identify the root causes, origin, and effects of the disease ar just how widespread it had become. Scarce in commerce with only or recorded sale at auction in 1979.
