Cases of Cholera Collected at Paris, in the Month of April, 1832, in the Wards of MM. Andral and Louis at the Hospital La Pitie.

JACKSON, James.

$750.00

Item Number: 137121

Boston: Carter, Hendee, and Co, 1832.

First edition of Jackson’s work detailing six cases of Cholera collected at the Hospital de la Pitie at Paris. Octavo, original publisher’s boards and paper spine label. In very good condition. Ownership inscription.

American physician James Jackson began a medical practice in Boston in 1800 which he continued until 1866. In 1803 he became a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and in 1810 he proposed with John Collins Warren the establishment of a hospital and an asylum for the insane. Somerville Asylum was soon founded, and afterward the Massachusetts General Hospital was begun in Boston, of which he was the first physician until he resigned in 1835. In 1810 he was chosen professor of clinical medicine at Harvard Medical School, and in 1812 professor of theory and practice, which post he held until 1835, and was afterward professor emeritus until his death.