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)

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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

1878-1886

2 volumes

Purchased from C. R. Johnson Rare Book Collections, London NW3, 24/10/2007.

Cornelius Benjamin Fox, medical officer of health, was born at Truro. His medical education took place at King’s College, London, Edinburgh and Paris. He obtained the M.R.C.S. and L.S.A. diplomas in 1863 and the Edinburgh M.D. degree in the following year. He started to practise at Scarborough but in 1873 moved to Chelmsford on being appointed medical officer of health for Central, East and South Essex. Both during his tenure of office and after his early retirement to Ilfracombe in 1879, he wrote numerous articles for medical journals, mostly on subjects connected with public health. Sir John Simon was an admirer of Dr Fox and praised him as 'one of the ablest and most zealous of the first appointed officers of Health...'

Fox wrote several other books including works on disease prevention, ozone and antozone, water analysis and ear-cough.

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