Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 299

Price Realized: $ 344
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CUBA--MEDICINE.) Romay, Tomás. Elogio del Dr. D. Eusebio Valli, medico ordinario del Hospital Militar de Dijon. 10, [1] pages. 4to, modern calf gilt; early owner's inked stamp on title page and second leaf. Havana, 1816
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Valli was a prominent Italian doctor who died while studying a yellow fever epidemic in Havana in 1816. His official cause of death was yellow fever, but his assistant Romay here argues that his death was actually caused by severe anxiety triggered by the gruesome symptoms he witnessed. See López Denis, Disease and Society in Colonial Cuba, pages 141-2. Palau 277193; Sabin 73009. One copy in OCLC, and none known at auction.