1784. 8vo, pp. 27, [5]; some slight foxing; stitched as issued, in modern wrappers. Rare dissertation by the Mainz physician Karl Strack (1726-1806), on the influenza epidemic that affected not only much of northern Europe, but also North and Central America in the first half of 1782. Citing the work of Metzger and William Grant, Strack gives describes the symptoms and the spread of the disease in general, before giving a detailed case study of a pregnant woman who contracted influenza on the fourth of June. He describes the symptoms which affected the woman, and her eventual recovery.
Karl Strack (1722-1805) studied in Mainz, Paris, Berlin and Erfurt, before returning to Mainz to practice as a doctor. He became professor of surgery there, in 1754, then of physiology and pathology in 1763 and of chemistry in 1782. The present work is one of many, mainly Latin, works that Strack published throughout his career; others include an account of the Mainz General Hospital (1788) and a set of Observationes medicinales de morbo cum petechiis (1767). The present dissertation was reprinted in Ticini in 1790.
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