Dyspepsy Forestalled & Resisted: or, Lectures on Diet, Regimen, & Employment; Delivered to the Students of Amherst College; Spring Term, 1830.

Hitchcock, Edward

Amherst [Mass.]: : Printed and published by J.S. & C. Adams., 1830

Bound in modern 1/4 black cloth over white boards. Good binding and cover. viii, [9]-360 p.; 19 cm.  Hitchcock was a Deerfield, Mass native, who studied under Silliman.  He was both a Congregational minister and a scientist.  A longtime (1825-1864) professor of Chemistry and Natural History at Amherst, he also served as President of Amherst College (1845-1854).  He was Massachusett's state geologist (as well as Vermont's) and later the President of the American Association of Geologists.  Notably, he discovered fossil footprints in the Connecticut River Valley.  <br> Early signatures on title page of: E. Bartlett, 1831; Josiah Bartlett, 1849, George Bartlett, 1854.