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Published by Legare Street Press 9/10/2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015383424 ISBN 13: 9781015383425
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Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. Idiocy: and Its Treatment by the Physiological Method. Book.
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Published by Legare Street Press 2021-09, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014575907 ISBN 13: 9781014575906
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Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-Third Street, New York, 1873
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st Edition (Atwater 3137). 72 pp. T.p. printer's ornament. Text illustrated with 2 cuts of thermometers, and a few graphs. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 5" Born in France, Seguin emigrated to the US in 1848. "Never comfortable writing in English, Seguin received assistance from his son in composing his books published in that language [as here]. Kelly & Burrage attribute to his son, the neurologist Edward Constan Seguin [1843 - 1898] 'the introduction of thermometry in the United States.'" [Atwater]. C S Choate possibly George Cheyne Shattuck Choate [1827 - 1896]: founder of Choate Sanitarium, Pleasantville, New York. Slight lean, with average wear to binding. Front hinge paper starting in bottom 2". Period pencil pos ["C S Choate"] to preliminary blank. Withal, a VG copy. Original publisher's terra cotta cloth binding with black stamping.
Published by G. P. Putnam & Sons, 1873., New York:, 1873
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Neuchatel, NEUCH, Switzerland
First Edition
19 cm. 12mo. 72 pp. Original brick cloth stamped in black; later paper label affixed to spine; spine ends worn. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to Dr. [presumed to be: Charles J.] Stille [Charles Janeway Stille (1819-1899)]. Ex-library bookplate of the University of Pennsylvania, Stille Library [withdrawn]. With added rubber-stamping. Frye bookplate. Good +. First edition. With the introduction of the family thermometer, a non-physician can take and record temperatures of persons at home. Seguin "helped popularize the clinical thermometer in America through several publications (1870s)." â" Kaufman. In 1876 Seguin published another related paper, Medical Thermometry and human temperature. PROVENANCE: Charles Janeway Stille (1819-1899) an American educator and writer. Stille was the tenth provost of the University of Pennsylvania (1868-1880). "In 1872, Stille moved Penn from its Ninth Street home to its current West Philadelphia campus and oversaw the opening of the Towne Scientific School. Two years later Stille presided over the opening of University Hospital (later the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania). In 1877, he presided over the opening of the School of Music at Penn, followed in the next year by the School of Dentistry. Stille was also successful in his attempts to allow women to attend certain lectures on campus, taking the first steps towards co-education at Penn." He wrote: 'Historical Development of American Civilization'; 'Studies in Mediaeval Civilization'; 'Beaumarchais and the Lost Million'; 'History of the United States Sanitary Commission'; 'How a Free People Conduct a Long War'; 'Northern Interest and Southern Independence'; 'John Dickinson'; 'Anthony Wayne'; etc. â" University of Pennsylvania Archives. REFERENCES: Kaufman, Martin; Stuart Galishoff; & Joseph UI Carvalho (eds.), Dictionary of American Medical Biography U: p. 670). Atwater 3137. See: John S. Haller, Jr., "Medical Thermmetrya short history." Western Journal of Medicine, 1985 Jan;142(1):108â"116.
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