first edition
1868 · Leipzig:
by WUNDERLICH, Carl Reinhold August (1815-1877).
Leipzig:: Otto Wigand, 1868., 1868. 8vo. (200 x 125 mm) viii, 384 pp. 7 folding plates, 40 text figs.; foxed throughout. Contemporary quarter pebbled cloth over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine title; boards rubbed, spine ends worn. Bookplate of Andras Gedeon. Very good. FIRST EDITION. "This classic work on temperature in disease laid the foundation of modern knowledge regarding clinical thermometry. Garrison has said of Wunderlich that he 'found fever a disease and left it a symptom.' The book was translated into English and published by the New Sydenham society in 1871." [Garrison and Morton]. Garrison, History of medicine, pp. 430-31; Garrison & Morton 2677; Gedeon, Science and technology in medicine, #7.6 (pp. 55, 57) [this copy]; Hirsch VI, p. 338.
(Inventory #: S9557)