A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF FEMALES. Disorders of Menstruation
New-York: William Radde, 1854. 1s edition. Cloth. 1st edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., vi, (i), 165, (3) pp. Bound in the publisher's purple cloth, with decoration stamped in blind.Light edge wear to the boards and some uneven sunning. This volume must have survived a fire, as there is a smoke line on the rear board and front paste down. Light foxing throughout. Still, Very Good. Very Good. Item #25541
Dr. Peters was one of the three original founders of the New York Pathological Society, and in 1859 he was president of the College of Medical Sciences and professor of materia medica and therapeutics in this institution. He was the physician and personal friend of Washington Irving. He was associated with Dr. Edmund C. Wendt in preparing a treatise on cholera, and in 1866 wrote Peters' "Notes on Asiatic Cholera." This was one of his favorite subjects, also the routes by which the diseases traveled from Asia to Europe. The Index Catalogue credits him with some ten works on this subject out of a total of twenty-seven titles. In 1873 he traveled through the South and Southwest to study this disease, and afterwards assisted in preparing a report, published by order of Congress. At one time he was president of the Medical Society of the County of New York, and he held a similar office in the New York Neurological Society in 1876–77.
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