Observations on Spotted Fever [caption title]. Read before the Medical and Surgical Society of Montgomery, Ala., April 2, 1866

First separate edition, an offprint from the Journal. 8vo. 17 pp. Not in Ellison. Not recorded on OCLC. Original printed self-wrappers (vertical crease, as for mailing, heavily foxed, later owner's name on verso of final leaf), stitched. Still a good solid copy. William O. Baldwin (1818-1886), born near the site where Montgomery, Alabama, was incorporated the following year, received little early formal education, but "read" medicine with a local physician in his teens before graduating from Transylvania University with a medical degree in 1837. He returned home to Montgomery to begin his practice which flourished; he was a founding member of the Medical Association of Alabama, serving as its president in 1851, as well as president of the American Medical Association in 1868. In addition, he attended to the sick and wounded on both sides throughout the Civil War and helped found the First National Bank of Montgomery, serving as its president. He published regularly in medical periodicals, gained membership to a number of medical societies and professional organizations, and served as a member of the board of trustees of the Medical College of Alabama, 1872-1886.