Author: Baly, William, M.D.; Gull, William W., M.D.
Title: Reports on Epidemic Cholera: Drawn Up at the Desire of the Cholera Committee of the Royal College of Physicians
Description: London, John Churchill, 1854. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 220. 8vo. Bound in original brown cloth, embossed in blind. Illustrated with folding maps and charts. The binding of this volume shows considerable wear, but our binder has discreetly stabilized any deterioration and strengthened the hinges, and replaced the endpapers. One portion of one map has been taped, leaving a yellow residue. Otherwise, the contents are clean and tight. This volume contains two reports: one by Gull (pp. vi, 220) and the other by Baly (pp. xvi, 345.) William Withey Gull (1816-1890) was a famous British physician, best known for his close association with London's Guy's Hospital. He was born aboard a barge (his father was a barge owner), and began his career as a schoolmaster. However, through the intercession of a friend and mentor, he was brought to London where he attended lectures at Guy's Hospital. His career advanced rapidly and, in 1851, he became an assistant physician and in 1856 a full physician of the hospital. In 1869 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and he was created a baronet in 1872. His fame rests mainly on his clinical work, although he published papers on cholera, rheumatic fever, and paraplegia. Some recent commentators suspect that he may have been 'Jack the Ripper', although, at the time of the murders, he was in his 70s and had suffered a stroke. William Baly (1814-1861) was a British physician who completed his medical studies at the Royal College of Surgeons, with post-graduate work at Paris, Berlin, and Heidelberg. He returned to London in 1836 and went into private practice. In 1859 he was appointed physician to Queen Victoria. He did significant research on dysentary and cholera. 1854. Not in G&M or Osler. A scarce title; seldom seen.

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