The modern climatic treatment of invalids with pulmonary consumption in Southern California.
Detroit, Mich. George S. Davis, 1893. 8vo. xi, [i], 126, [8] pp., including publisher’s advertisements at the end and an ad touting a remedy for nervous exhaustion b. FIRST EDITION. Colored frontispiece illustration of view of San Diego from Point Loma. Publisher’s cloth, title and author in gilt on front cover, ex library copy with small label pasted onto front cover and withdrawn stamp on title. Item #16248
First edition. Everyone knew that people moved to Southern California for the climate, and here it is in print! Prior to touting the medical aspects of the climate, Remondino discusses the general environmental conditions of this part of the country, plus things like what to do in Southern California and the cost of living. He then treats various diseases, such as respiratory, kidney, malaria and rheumatism, and how patients with these and other conditions fare in the California climate.
Remondino (1846–1926) was born in Italy but moved to Minnesota as a child. A long-tie medical practitioner and widely-published author, he is best known as a pro-circumcision advocate, and the author of he highly influential History of circumcision from the earliest times to the present (1891), among other works on the subject. He was the first president of the San Diego Board of Health and the co-founder of San Diego’s first private hospital.
Price: $200.00