The Epicurean: A Tale

London, UK: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1827. 4th Edition.. Leather Bound. Near Fine. 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. Leather Bound. Condition: Near Fine. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, UK 1827. 4th Edition. 332 pages. Deluxe binding. Full green leather, 5-ribbed spine with black title label, boards stamped with gold floral borders, board edges and turn-ins have gold decor, all page ends have marble finish matching marble endpapers, silk reading ribbon. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Slight spotting on blank pages next to endpapers, else no foxing. Text pages clean and bright. Has ownership signature of 'C.J.B. Aldis, Trinity 1827'. Size: 16mo 5.75 - 6.75'' tall. The Epicurean is a novel by Thomas Moore, published in 1827. It relates the story of Alciphron, leader of the Epicurean sect in Athens in the 3rd century AD, in his journey to Egypt seeking the secret of immortality. The book purports to be a translation of an ancient, 'curious Greek manuscript' found in the monastery of St. Macarius in Egypt around 1800. Charles James Berridge Aldis (1808-1872) was an English physician, son of Sir Charles Aldis. He was educated at St Paul's School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in January 1831. He lectured on medicine first at his own house, afterwards at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at the Aldersgate Street School. He was successively physician to the London Dispensary, 1839; the Surrey Dispensary, 1843; the Farringdon Dispensary, 1844; the Western Dispensary, Westminster; and the St. Paul and St. Barnabas Dispensary, Pimlico, founded in 1848. A great part of Aldis's life was occupied in the arduous and unremunerated service of these institutions. Aldis took great interest in the sanitary condition of great towns, and co-operated with eminent sanitary reformers in drawing attention to the subject. He gave evidence before the Health of Towns Commission, 1844, and by his numerous publications contributed to the improvements which have since been effected. When medical officers of health were appointed under the Metropolis Local Management Act in 1855, Aldis was elected to that office in the parish of St. George's, Hanover Square. He discharged the duties of this office till his death with singular energy and devotion, and set the example of how such work ought to be done. He became well known also for his zeal in carrying out the provisions of the Workshops' Regulation Act as applied to the limitation of hours of work in dressmakers' and similar establishments in London. This field of work he made specially his own, and to no one man is a larger share of credit due for the amelioration which has been effected of late years in the condition of the poor women employed in such businesses. Aldis also took an active part in the Social Science Association, the Association of Medical Officers of Health, and similar bodies, and was in all ways one of the most energetic of medical sanitary reformers. He was an active member of the council of the College of Physicians, and in 1859 was selected to deliver the Harveian Oration (in Latin). Fiction Antique Women's Topics::Women's Studies 7069 7069