Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1612

WILLIAM BARNWELL (fl. 1800) Physical investigations & deductions, from medical and surgical facts relative to the causes, nature and remedies of the diseases of a warm and vitiated atmosphere, from climate, local situation, or season of the year. Printed for the author 1802 vi [2] [8]-458 [1] pp. 22 cm.

Barnwell, a surgeon, prepared the present work on medical climatology from his extensive experience and service with the East India Company. It was his intention "to recommend those principles, and practices, which we have found most successful, in the diseases which most frequently occur in consequence of a warm temperature of the atmosphere; whether in tropical climates, or in the summer, and autumn, of more temperate latitudes" (Preface, p. [iii]). Barnwell concludes the book with a chapter on physianthropy which he defines as the experimental philosophy of human life.

Cited references: Austin 127 (Philadelphia ed., 1802)