Boston Medical and Surgical Journal Volume VI: Feburary - August, 1832; Volume VII: August 1832 - Feburary 18331833.

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Boston: Clapp and Hull, 1832.

Modern brown leather backed contemporary boards, modern black spine label. Wear to boards, rehinged, foxing, bookplate, several owners signature of Usher Parsons. Several articles are about the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic of 1832 in New York and Massachusetts and Europe and various attempts at cures. At time the prevailing thought of transmission was the miasma theory. The pandemic prompted the passage of the landmark Public Health Act and the Nuisances Removal Act in 1848 in England.Usher Parsons served as surgeon’s mate during the War of 1812, joining Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s expedition on Lake Erie and the later battle.

A good copy of an important medical history on cholera.