Library of Practical Medicine Published by Order of the Massachusetts Medica Society for the Use of its Fellows Vol 1. Containing a Treatise on Fever by S. Smith, MD & Clinical Illustrations of Fever by A. Tweedie, MD

E-057: Stimpson and Clapp. Very Good. 1831. Hardcover. Leather. 8vo. Stimpson And Clapp, Boston, MA. 1831. Xvi, 412 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Rebound in 1/2 leather and red cloth with titles and raised bands present to the spine. Ex-library mark present to the title page. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Thomas Southwood Smith, MD, sanitary reformer, was born at Martock, Somerset, on 21 December 1788. His studies for the ministry were encouraged by William Blake (1773-1821) , of whom he wrote a touching memoir. According to family tradition, his ministry was first exercised among evangelical dissenters in the west of England. Having become a widower, and intending to combine with the preacher's office the practice of medicine, he entered as a medical student at Edinburgh in October 1812, and in November took the vacant charge of the unitarian congregation then meeting in Skinners' Hall, Canongate, where he raised the attendance from twenty to nearly two hundred. Southwood Smith was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians on 25 June 1821 (fellow, 9 July 1847). He was one of the projectors of the ‘Westminster Review, ’ and wrote for its first number (January 1824) an article on Bentham's system of education. In the same year he contributed an article, ‘The Use of the Dead to the Living, ’ advocating facilities for dissection; this was reprinted in 1824 and subsequently. In 1824 he was appointed physician to the London Fever Hospital and subsequently to the Eastern Dispensary and to the Jews' Hospital. He was one of the original committee (April 1825) of the ‘Useful Knowledge’ society; wrote for it a ‘Treatise on Animal Physiology’ (1829, 8vo) , contributed to its ‘Penny Cyclopædia’ (1832-45) the chief articles on anatomy, medicine, and physiology; and added to its publications a treatise on ‘The Philosophy of Health’. Meanwhile he had embodied the result of devoted labours for his public patients, in ward and home, in ‘A Treatise on Fever’ (1830) , which at once took rank as an authority. To epidemic fever he largely traced the impoverishment of the poor, and showed that it is preventible. From this work dates his remarkable career as a sanitary reformer. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .