Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1594

JOHN KEARSLEY MITCHELL (1798-1858) On the cryptogamous origin of malarious and epidemic fevers. Lea and Blanchard 1849 vii [13]-137 [11] pp. 19.6 cm.

Mitchell, professor of medicine at Jefferson Medical College and father of S. Weir Mitchell (see No. 1956 ff.), wrote on a wide variety of medical subjects and was the first to describe the neuritic spinal arthropathies. Garrison commented that this book "files the first brief for the parasitic etiology of disease on a priori grounds--a rigorous, logical argument which, as pure theory goes, ranks with Henle's essay on miasms and contagia (1840)" (An introduction to the history of medicine. 4th ed. New York, 1929. p. 439). The University of Iowa Libraries' copy has been inscribed by the author to his friend, Benjamin H. Coates.

See Related Record(s): 1956

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 5234; Osler 3414; Waller 6566