The history of the contagious cholera; with facts explanatory of its origin and laws, and of a rational method of cure.
London.
James Cochrane and Co, 1831.
First edition.
8vo.
[4], xv, [1], 291pp, [1]. With two engraved folding maps. Modern calf- backed marbled paper boards, tooled in gilt and blind. Offsetting to title page.
The first edition of physician James Kennedy's (1803-1868) early monograph on the diagnosis and treatment of endemic cholera in India.
Kennedy's primary concern is the study of the 1817 cholera epidemic - which originated in Bengal and propagated throughout the 'Upper Provinces of Hindostan' – information of which he sourced from 'the Reports on Cholera, which were compiled in India by order of the East India Company'. The latter portion of the text is devoted both to the progress of cholera exterior to India and treatment of the disease, primarily through blood-letting and the administration of high doses of laudanum.
The Lancet (5th November, 1831, p.173) were effusive in their detailed review: 'Did we permit another number of this Journal to issue from the press without seizing the occasion to place Mr Kennedy's work in the most prominent position before our readers we should be guilty of flagrant injustice both to them and to that talented author, for in whatever light we regard it, we consider his volume of greater public value than any other which this subject has yet produced'.
£ 450.00
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Kennedy's primary concern is the study of the 1817 cholera epidemic - which originated in Bengal and propagated throughout the 'Upper Provinces of Hindostan' – information of which he sourced from 'the Reports on Cholera, which were compiled in India by order of the East India Company'. The latter portion of the text is devoted both to the progress of cholera exterior to India and treatment of the disease, primarily through blood-letting and the administration of high doses of laudanum.
The Lancet (5th November, 1831, p.173) were effusive in their detailed review: 'Did we permit another number of this Journal to issue from the press without seizing the occasion to place Mr Kennedy's work in the most prominent position before our readers we should be guilty of flagrant injustice both to them and to that talented author, for in whatever light we regard it, we consider his volume of greater public value than any other which this subject has yet produced'.
