Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1409

DANIEL DRAKE (1785-1852) A systematic treatise, historical, etiological, and practical, on the principal diseases of the interior valley of North America. Lippincott, Grambo & Co. 1854 First Series. Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co. [etc.], 1850. xvi, 878 pp., incl. tables, 19 plates (incl. fold. front., maps, diagrs.). Copy 1: 23.2 cm.; Copy 2: 22.6 cm. xix [17]-985 pp., incl. tables. Copy 1: 23.2 cm.; Copy 2: 22.9 cm.

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Drake's "crowning achievement was the great work on the Diseases of the interior valley of North America, the result of thirty years' labor, based largely upon personal observation made during extensive travel. The first volume is a wonderful encyclopedia of the topography, hydrography, climate, and meteorology, plants and animals, population (including diet, habitat, and occupations) of the Mississippi Valley. The second volume, not published until after his death, treats of the autumnal malarial and other fevers, yellow fever, typhus fever, the exanthemata, and the unclassified 'phlogistic fevers,' in relation to topographic, meteorologic, and sociologic features. There was nothing like this book in literature, unless it might be Hippocrates on Airs, Waters, and Places" (Fielding H. Garrison, An introduction to the history of medicine. 4th ed. Philadelphia, 1929. p. 442).

Cited references: Cushing D258, D259; Garrison-Morton 1777

Copy 1: Gift of Robert N. Larimer, M.D. Copy 2: Gift of William B. Bean, M.D