Malaria And Malarial Diseases by George M. Sternberg - 1884

William Wood & Co, 1884. 1st, Date Same Title & Copyright. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Ex College & Surgeons library book with brown cloth cover, chips on spine ends and edges. Plain pocket on inside front cover, paper cracked on hinge. Presented to Quine Library by Dr. A. E. H. on front endpaper. Library seal stamp on title page. No other library papers. Wood's Library ofStandard Medical Authors printed on cover.

NY: William Wood & Company, 1884., 1884. First printing. 8vo. vii, 329 pp. Illustrated with tables and graphs. Original light brown decorated textured cloth stamped in black. Shallow wear at tribal extremities, small areas of some soil or light stain near fore edge else tight, very good plus.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: William Wood & Co, 1884. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good. Hardcover is rubbed and chipped at spine ends and corners, cover and foredges soiled, pages browned at edges, water damage across top of cover, minor stamping, gold stamping on spine.

New York: William Wood & Company, 1884. First Edition. "Brigadier-General George Miller Sterberg was a U.S. army physician who is considered to be the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology (1892). After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria (1881), discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia (1881), and confirmed the roles of bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever (1886)." (Wikipedia) "Sternberg, U.S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Indepedently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus independently of Pasteur and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He it was who sent Reed off to make his great discoveries regarding yellow fever." (Garrison & Morton) Three of his works are listed in the fourth edition of Garrison and Morton’s Medical Bibliography. 8vo. pp. vii, 329. original black & blind-stamped cloth (slight chipping to head of spine, former owner’s book label & institutional… Read More