Observations on the disease called the plague, on the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of a hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases ... Translated from the French by Adam Neale
New York: T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of Physic of Columbia College, 1806. First American edition, 12mo, pp. xlvii, [1], 234, [6]; full contemporary calf; upper cover neatly reattached; lower board starting, spine label slightly chipped; early Medical Society of Orange County bookplate on upper pastedown, spot in lower corner of title page (and 3 successive leaves); occasional light marginal marks in pencil, good. Assalini's argument was that plague and yellow fever were not contagious and "Christiandom" was not at risk of its spreading westward. Austin 89: "The French original appeared in Paris in 1801 ... The appendix added in the American edition is taken from Pinckard's Notes on the West Indies, London, 1806. 'Introduction by the American Publishers' (p. vii-xlii) includes extracts from S. L. Mitchell's letter of Sept. 10, 1806 to the Board of Health in New York, and his letter (undated) to Dr. Rodgers, the health officer in the port of New York." Item #58742
Price: $275.00
