Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1790

DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813-1873) Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. John Murray 1857 ix, 687 pp., illus. (part fold.), 2 fold. maps, fold. plan. 21.7 cm.

Certainly one of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century, David Livingstone almost single-handedly opened up the interior of Africa through his varied and extensive explorations of the continent. His training in Greek, theology, and medicine at Glasgow enabled him to secure a missionary station under the auspices of the London Missionary Society. His religious zeal was soon overshadowed by his revulsion at the flourishing slave trade which he termed the "running sore of Africa." The remainder of his life was devoted almost solely to exploring alternate trade routes which might undercut those based on slave labor. His journeys are recounted in this fascinating and absorbing account, which includes one of the earliest descriptions and illustrations of the tsetse fly and its role in cattle disease.

Cited references: Cushing L308; Garrison-Morton 5269; Osler 5077; Waller 19917

Gift of John Martin, M.D.