Two annotated interleaved publications by Cornelius Benjamin Fox: Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A Handbook for the Medical Officer of Health (1878) and Sanitary examinations of water, air and food. A vade-mecum for the Medical Officer of Health (1886)
- Fox, Cornelius Benjamin (1839-1922), MD Edin, MRCS, LSA, FRCP (1880)
- Date:
- 1878-1886
- Reference:
- MSS.8561-8562
- Archives and manuscripts
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Author's own copy of these two works, interleaved and extensively annotated for later editions, and with numerous autograph letters and other enclosures bound in. Including:
Letter from John Simon, 1878
Declaration of medical education of Cornelius B Fox age 24 (King's College London) c.1863
Letter re Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, 1880
Letter re Fellowship of the Chemical Society 1878
Various chemistry analysis procedures and methods and tests for substances, e.g. potassium permanganate, oxygen, nitrites
Letters re results of various analyses of water
Newspaper cuttings and other ephemera such as pamphlets on scientific topics
Very detailed annotation of volumes
Covers all aspects of water analysis, food and air even meteorology - link between season and disease
Extracts of reviews of his manual
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Biographical note
Fox wrote several other books including works on disease prevention, ozone and antozone, water analysis and ear-cough.
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- 1549