[Rarebooks] fa: QUARANTINE LAWS & CONTAGION 1825 Granville & Macmichael - 2 MEDICAL PAMPHLETS

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A Letter to the Right Hon. W. Huskisson, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, on the Quarantine Bill. By A.B. Granville, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., M.R.I… London: [s.n.], 1825. [AND:] A Brief Sketch on the Subject of Contagion; with Some Remarks on Quarantine. By William Macmichael, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Physician Extraordinary to H.R.H. the Duke of York, &c. &c. &c. London: [s.n.], 1825. Two works bound together in one volume; recent wraps with printed label, 8vo; 26 pp. ([394]-403 p.; [520]-531 p.).

Both works extracted from The Pamphleteer, but first published in this year (1825). Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783-1872) was an Italian-born surgeon and gynecologist who is credited with performing the first scientific autopsy of an Egyptian mummy (his determination that the Egyptian woman died of ovarian cancer was only recently disproved by a re-examination conducted at University College London). At the opening of his treatise, Granville writes rather testily: "My prediction is fulfilled: England is declared to be an infected country; she is put on a footing with Turkey at some of the principal ports of the Mediterranean,… in consequence of the reported relaxation in the sanatory laws said to have been recommended by this Government…" William Macmichael was a traveler and accomplished writer as well as a prominent London physician. He wrote A Journey from Moscow to Constantinople in 1819 and in 1827 published, anonymously, The Gold-Headed Cane, a series of biographies of leading medical men of history, all owners of the eponymous walking stick. He was later physician to both George IV and William IV.

Some dimpling to the wraps; light toning to the leaves with a very few small spots; otherwise very clean and sound, firmly bound.