Yellow Fever: Considered in its Historical, Pathological, Etiological, and Therapeutical Relations: Including a Sketch of the Disease as it has Occurred in Philadelphia from 1699 to 1854 (2 volume set)

Rene La Roche

Philadelphia : Blanchard and Lea, 1855

[Infectious Diseases: Yellow Jack in the American context] 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's cloth.  Hardcovers. Some wear to cover, chips off spine cloth. re-backed and restored. Clean, unmarked pages.  pp. lxi, (2), 17-615, 32 p.; viii, 17-813 p.  Rene La Roche was a Philadelphia-born doctor, who served in the War of 1812.  This, his most significant work, was widely read. Yellow Fever was particularly detrimental to the development of Philadelphia.  La Roche studied 14 epidemics in the city.  He presents the contagion v. miasmatic arguments for the spread of the disease.  An exhaustive treatise.   

Refs: Sabin 39048. Garrison-Morton 5454.2