<<Peixotto, Daniel Levy Maduro.>> Observations on the Climate and Diseases of the Island of Curacao. (pp. 395-417) in: The New York Medical and Physical Journal, Vol. I.

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Lot 300
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<<Peixotto, Daniel Levy Maduro.>> Observations on the Climate and Diseases of the Island of Curacao. (pp. 395-417) in: The New York Medical and Physical Journal, Vol. I.

Engraved medical plates. pp. 528. Lightly foxed. Contemporary half-calf marbled boards, rubbed. Thick 8vo.

New York: 1822

Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Daniel Peixotto's first published medical work. Not long after, he was appointed editor of this very Journal. Born in Amsterdam, he was educated in Curaçao and later New York where he received the degree of Doctor of Medicine aged just 19. See D.P. Hays, Daniel L.M. Peixotto, MD in: Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society, No. 26, (1918) pp. 219–30. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43059310. For another publication by Daniel Levy Maduro Peixotto: Concerning the need for better Jewish education in New York, see Kestenbaum Sale 83, lot 5.