BERGIUS, PETER JONAS.

Om frossors och ältans uphäfvande genom koppor. (In: "Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar").

(Stockholm, 1756).

8vo. As extracted from "Kungl. Svenska vetenskapsakademiens handlingar", two detached leaves. Fine and clean. Pp. 131-134


First edition of Bergius' findings concerning the supersession of ague and childhood fever by smallpox - published a year after his dissertation on the same subject. 

Peter Jonas Bergius (1730 – 1790) was a Swedish medical doctor and botanist. In 1758 Bergius was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In 1768 he was elected to membership of the American Philosophical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1770 and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1785.

Order-nr.: 62689

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