1879 SIGNED FIRST EDITION ON ASTHMA. The Lettsomian Lectures Delivered at the Medical Society of London, 1879, on Bronchial Asthma: Its Causes, Pathology, and Treatment

London: Bailliere, Tindall, and Cox, 1879. First edition.

1879 FIRST EDITION SLIM MONOGRAPH ON ASTHMA BY NOTED LONDON PULMONOLOGIST--SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.

7 1/4 inches tall hardcover, blindstamped brown cloth binding, gilt title to cover, inscribed on half title, "Dr Lindan Coghill with the kind regards of the Author," vi, 86 pp, 32 pp publisher's adverts. Slight bubbling to covers, corners bumped, spine faded, wear to spine and spine ends frayed, front hinge starting, text pages clean and unmarked, very good minus.

JOHN CHARLES THOROWGOOD (1833 – 1913) was born at Totteridge, the son of a schoolmaster, and educated in his (truncated) father's school. At University College, London, he studied classical subjects before entering the medical faculty. A Fellowes medallist, he qualified in 1855 and spent a short period in general practice with a brother-in-law at Kettering. He then took charge of a patient visiting the south of France and returned to start a consulting practice in London. He was first appointed to the staff of the Royal General Dispensary, and then, in 1863, to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, where twenty-two years later he was made consulting physician. He also became assistant physician to the West London Hospital and was full physician from 1873 to 1885. He lectured on materia medica and therapeutics at the Middlesex Hospital from 1872 to 1888, and was examining physician to the Royal National Hospital for Consumption. (Inventory #: 1071)