An Essay on the Analogy of the Asiatic and African Plague and the American Yellow Fever
by: Phineas Jenks

Softcover. Philadelphia, Printed for the author by Hugh Maxwell, 1st, 1804, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Disbound paper pamphlet. 52 pages. With a view to prove that they are the same disease varied by climate and other circumstances. Jenks studied medicine with Dr. Benjamin Rush, graduating in 1804 with a diploma from the University of Pennsylvania. He began the practice of medicine under Dr. Isaac Chapman of Wrightstown Township. He was elected a junior member of the Philadelphia Medical Society in 1803. This was his thesis for his degree. Light foxing, this is the original printing extracted from a bound volume. INSCRIBED BY "THE AUTHOR" on a blank prelim page. Clean copy.