Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1907

HENRY HYDE SALTER (1823-1871) On asthma: its pathology and treatment. Blanchard and Lea 1864 viii [17]-260 pp., illus. 22 cm.

Salter distinguished himself at an early age in both academic and clinical circles, becoming in 1856 the youngest member of the Royal College of Physicians. He held the chair of physiology at Charing Cross Hospital for twelve years and afterward was named head physician. Salter's interest in asthma stemmed partly from his own affliction with the disease. This definitive work, first published in London in 1860, is generally regarded as the finest work on asthma published in the nineteenth century.

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 2586 (1st ed., 1860)

Gift of Dr. Charles R. Baker