Noah Webster: Letters on Yellow Fever Addressed to Dr. William Currie (Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, No. 9)

vi, 110 pp. Original light blue printed wrappers. A collection of transcriptions of 25 letters written by Noah Webster (most famous for his work on the dictionary that bears his name), concentrating on the topic of yellow fever. Introductory essay by Benjamin Spector entitled 'Noah Webster: His Contribution to American Thought and Progress'. Webster had a keen interest in epidemiology, and Osler considered his A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases to be 'the most important American medical work written by a layman' (Garrison-Morton 1675.1).