Description: [PUBLIC HEALTH, EPIDEMICS, LIVESTOCK PANDEMICS, US HISTORY] "THIRD ANNUAL REPORT OF THE METROPOLITAN BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE METROPOLITAN SANITARY DISTRICT" 1869. Albany. The Argus Company Printers. First Edition. Bound in original brown cloth. Backstrip flaked off. Joints tender but holding. Slightly shaken. 22 of 23 chromolithograph plates of affected cattle organs. Color culture plates of microscopic samples. 5 folding plates describing mortality rates from various causes. Overall, about very good or better. An important epidemiological and public health report in a major US city during the industrial revolution. There is information regarding the cholera epidemic which swept Europe in 1865 and arrived in the US by 1866. The color plates which detail the affected and failing organs of Texas cattle stricken with 'Texas fever' splenic fever which decimated the cattle industry at the time and fundamentally altered the way cattle are raised, transported and sold. Please email any questions -
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Year Printed: 1869
