1799 Noah Webster Medicine 1ed History of Epidemic DISEASES America BEST!

1799 Noah Webster Medicine 1^ed History of Epidemic DISEASES America BEST!

“The most important medical work written in this country”

The name Webster has become synonymous with dictionary and American language over the last century. Noah Webster sought to create a purely ‘American’ culture that was independent of British claim; he achieved this by creating his dictionary – a work that helped distance American grammar and linguistics from that of Britain.

However, Webster is also remembered for an interesting treatise chronicling world diseases and epidemics. This work summarized 19^th-century diseases, his own observations, and the effects of the epidemics on economics and historical growth.

Osler says of this work:

“The most important medical work written in this country by a layman.”

Item number: #27523

Price: $750

WEBSTER, Noah

A brief history of epidemic and pestilential diseases ; with the principal phenomena of the physical world, which precede and accompany them, and observations deduced from the facts stated

Hartford: Printed by Hudson & Goodwin, 1799. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages; Volume II
  • [4], 352
• References: Garrison-Morton 1675.1
• Provenance:
  • Binding sticker – T. Creigh
  • Handwritten – John Creigh, 1830
    • John Creigh (1773-1861) was a physician in Pennsylvania. His own father, also John Creigh (1741-1813), was an Irish immigrant to America who fought for American independence during the Revolutionary War, being commissioned as Captain of the 6th Company 2nd Battalion.
  • Handwritten – Creigh, 1830
    • Thomas Creigh (1808-1880) was an American Presbyterian minister at Mercersburg Presbyterian Church for 49 years. While not predominantly remembered as a writer, he also wrote and published several sermons and works of Presbyterian history in and around his native Carlislie, Pennsylvania.
  • Language: English
  • Binding: Leather; tight and secure
  • Size: ~8.75in X 5.5in (22.5cm x 14cm)

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