Charles E. Buckingham, M.D.

Circumstances Affecting Individual and Public Health: A Lecture Delivered Before Suffolk Lodge, No. 8, Independent Order of Odd Fellows, on Tuesday Evening, April 11, 1848

Boston: William Chadwick, 1848. Softcover. String bound, 31 pp. in printed wrappers. Very good, chip to the inner corner of the rear wrap not affecting text. Transcription of a lecture on public health issues in 1848. Particular attention is paid to warming and ventilating rooms with recommendation to employ pipes in heating rather than open fireplaces, common sewers and their effect on "ventilaiton of towns" and drainage of buildings, effects on water supply and subsequent disease. Very Good. Item #E24515

Price: $40.00