WEBSTER NOAH A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Di

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WEBSTER, NOAH. A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases. 2 volumes. 8vo (sizes not quite uniform), contemporary sheep, worn, both volumes need rebacking; contents toned with occasional foxing, tape discoloration on endpapers, some marginal dampstaining in Volume 2. Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1799

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first edition of the first American work on general epidemiology, "the best general summary of epidemiological opinion at the beginning of the nineteenth century"--Garrison-Morton 1675.1. Austin 2023; Heirs of Hippocrates 1160. With the bookplates and stamps of the Library of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, and an inscription from the Society dated December 1953 presenting this set to Dr. Charles R. Austrian.