1898 LECTURES THEORY PRACTICE OF VACCINATION Robert Cory ill'd rare first US ed

Description: [MEDICINE; VACCINATION; RARE FIRST US PRINTING 1899] LECTURES ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF VACCINATION by Robert Cory, William Wood, 1899, first US printing following English first printing London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1898, green cloth cover with gilded lettering on spine and blindstamping, 5-1/2” x 8-3/4”, 132 pages, color plates, photographs, illustrations, tables, charts, footnotes, ownership signature of medical author Simon Henry Nagler dated November 11, 1930, at top left corner inside front cover (see below) /// POINTS OF INTEREST: ROBERT CORY, 1844-1900, “In 1875, after a short period of practice in Manchester, he was appointed assistant obstetric physician to St. Thomas’s, where he was also made lecturer on forensic medicine and director of the vaccination department. It was chiefly for his work on vaccination that he was generally known. In 1881, he was associated with Sir George Buchanan in founding the Government Animal Vaccine Station and became its director. Six years later, he was able to record that, in 38,000 vaccinations, in one instance only had he twice failed to secure a satisfactory reaction. An ardent experimentalist, in order to show that syphilitic infection could not be transferred by pure lymph unless mixed with blood, he inoculated himself, in 1886, from a syphilitic patient. He was proved tragically wrong, and from the resulting impairment to his health he never recovered fully. His retirement from his obstetric work became necessary in 1896 but he retained charge of the vaccination department and was given the status of physician. He lectured on vaccination at Cambridge from 1890 to 1900 and published a book on The Theory and Practice of Vaccination in 1897.” https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/inspiring-physicians/robert-cory; Simon Henry Nagler, co-author with Joseph Harold Merin of “The Etiology of the Neuroses”, Science and Behavior Books, 1960 /// CONDITION: hardcover in near fine condition, previous owner's name in small letters at top of inside front cover (see above), hinges tight, text block firm, clean well-preserved copy with minimal wear, exceptionally well-preserved copy. keywords: medical history, disease, illustrated medical book, English doctor, public health, government medical program

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