Fever: A Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1880. First Thus. Large Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Includes all five plates. Top right corner bumped, corners rubbed, first two pages loose from binding, ink note on front endpaper, pages toned. 1880 Large Hardcover. vii, 258 pp. [8] Includes all five plates. First edition in book form of Wood's elaborate monograph on fever that was the product of earlier research on sunstroke (described in his Thermic Fever [1872]). "Aided by a grant...from the Smithsonian...[Wood] devoted his spare time during the next eight years to the problem which he considered one of the most important of his life and [with the book offered here] revolutionized the then accepted theories of the treatment of fever" (Kelly and Burrage, American Medical Biography, 1326). This study was first published in the Smithsonian Institution's Contributions to Knowledge, no. 357 (entire number). See Garrison-Morton #2250 (on the pathology of sunstroke); Kaufman, Dictionary of American Medical Biography, 2:820-21. (Inventory #: 2346952)