April 12, 2024
1822 Baron MEDICAL TUBERCULOUS DISEASES * 1st Edition Colour Plates
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* * * Description ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE ENQUIRY RESPECTING TUBERCULOUS DISEASES. BY JOHN BARON, M.D. PHYSICIAN TO THE GENERAL INFIRMARY AT GLOUCESTER. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. AND G. UNDERWOOD,32, FLEET-STREET. 1822. ~ THE FIRST EDITION ~ Contemporary diced calf, rubbed, rebacked in buckram, faint library stamp to title page and to plates. An octavo volume, it measures approximately 22cm (8�") x 14cm (5�") x 2cm (1"). Pagination pp. xxxii. 233, [1], 3, [3], with 5 colour plates. John Baron, M.D. (1786�1851), was an English physician, the biographer of Edward Jenner. He was born at St. Andrews, where his father was professor of rhetoric in the university. At the age of fifteen he was sent to Edinburgh to study medicine, and he graduated M.D. there four years later (1805), at the age of nineteen. The same year his father died, and he prepared his college lectures for the press. He then attended a patient in Lisbon for two years, and on his return settled in practice at Gloucester. Appointed one of the physicians to the General Infirmary, he acquired a practice as a physician in Gloucester and the surrounding country. In 1832, poor health after Asiatic cholera obliged him to retire. He lived at Cheltenham during the rest of his life, disabled by 'creeping palsy' during his later years. He was an early advocate, at the Gloucester asylum,
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