Fever: A Study in Morbid and Normal Physiology.
Washington: Smithsonian, 1880. 5 plates. 258 pages. Folio, handsomely rebound in marbled boards with the original wrappers inside; chipped. (Washington, 1880). A very good(+) copy. Report on experiments made in 1876 and 1877 to determine the nature and cause of fever. Wood undertook the researches represented here as a result of his pioneering studies of sunstroke. Wood held chairs of botany, therapeutics and neurology at the University of Pennsylvania and is best known for his study, A Treatise on Therapeutics..... More