Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1330

WILLIAM FREDERIC EDWARDS (1777-1842) De l'influence des agens physiques sur la vie. Crochard 1824 xvi, 654 pp., fold. plate. 21.1 cm.

Edwards was born of English parents in Jamaica but eventually moved to France where he received his medical degree in 1815. He distinguished himself in a number of fields and founded the science of ethnology, but this classic treatise on environmental physiology constitutes his greatest achievement. Here Edwards describes and documents a mass of experimentation on the effects of air, water, heat, light, temperature, and electricity on the living organism. An English translation of the work was completed in 1832 by the pathologist, Thomas Hodgkin.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 1991; Wellcome II, p. 514

Gift of John Martin, M.D.