Industrial Poisons in the United States

Alice Hamilton

The Macmillan Co, 1929

[Interesting provenance, previously owned by Leslie F. Newman, and later by noted medical scholar Owen Hannaway.] Bound in publisher's green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Some staining to top edge (does not affect text). Contemporary signature of Newman on front end page, else unmarked. x, 590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. 

Leslie Newman was born in 1882 came from farming stock. He became an agricultural chemist and a Fellow of St. Catherine's, Cambridge. In 1919 he published A Course of Practical Chemistry for Agricultural Students with H.A.D Neville. He had a considerable knowledge of the East Anglian countryside, and a keen interest in folklore and related topics. He was a member of the Folklore Society, contributing articles to the Society's journal Folklore on a range of topics. He served as the Folklore Society's President between 1943 and 1945. 

From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).