Medicine - Bacteriology - Struve, Christian August. Studies and experiences on scarlet fever. Hanover, Hahn, 1803. XII, 331 pp. 18.5 x 11 cm. Marbled half leather binding of the period with gilt-stamped spine label and spine fillets. First edition, rare. - Hirsch-Hübotter V, 570 - The physician from Görlitz wrote numerous works of "popular-med. Content, but belonging to the most dignified of their kind." (Hirsch). - Clean copy, nicely bound. VAT: *

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