Observations on the Poisonous Properties of the Sulphate of Quinine. From the American Journal of the Medical Sciences, April, 1847
Montgomery, AL: M'Cormick & Walshe, printers, 1847. First separate edition. 8vo. 22 pp. With three pencil annotations by the author, amounting to approximately 100 words, each refining his observations and arguments; one manuscript ink correction. Not in Ellison or Owen. OCLC locates three copies (Library of Congress, Harvard-Countway, National Library of Medicine). Original printed yellow wrappers; lightly foxed, but very good. Item #50719
WILLIAM O. BALDWIN (1818-1886), born near the site where Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated the following year, received little early formal education, but “read” medicine with a local physician in his teens before graduating from Transylvania University with a medical degree in 1837. He returned home to Montgomery to begin his practice which flourished; he was a founding member of the Medical Association of Alabama, serving as its president in 1851, as well as president of the American Medical Association in 1868. In addition, he attended to the sick and wounded on both sides throughout the Civil War and helped found the First National Bank of Montgomery, serving as its president. He published regularly in medical periodicals, gained membership to a number of medical societies and professional organizations, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the Medical College of Alabama, 1872-1886.
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