TYTLER, Robert (1787-1838)
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Lot 195 | TYTLER, Robert (1787-1838)
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A concise narrative of facts connected with the disease, which occurred in the district of Jessore: during the months of August and September, 1817. Calcutta: C. M. Pratt & Co., [1817].
[Bound with:] – A slight sketch of a new nosological system for the classification of diseases. Calcutta: P. Crichton, 1821.
[And:] – Systematis nosologici novi, exemplum parvulum. Calcutta: P. Crichton, 1821.
Three rarities of early 19th-century printing in Calcutta, including possibly the earliest printed medical account of the first cholera pandemic, documenting the outbreak that marked the global emergence of cholera from British India. No copies of any of these works have previously appeared at auction (RareBookHub), and all are rare in institutions.
The 1817-1824 cholera pandemic rapidly spread across South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Africa and the Mediterranean, causing millions of deaths and drawing global attention. Its transmission was fuelled by trade, warfare, and pilgrimages, with significant outbreaks in Vietnam, Java, Korea, and China, and it led to the establishment of early public health responses, such as Russia’s anti-cholera program. The pandemic also triggered widespread xenophobia, particularly anti-Asian sentiment, as Western societies blamed Indian cultural practices for the disease’s spread.
Dr Robert Tytler studied at Edinburgh University and became a surgeon in the Bengal Native Infantry under the Honourable East India Company. He later played a notable role in an 1827 expedition to the South Pacific, aimed at investigating the fate of the French explorer Lapérouse. Appointed as ship’s doctor and naturalist aboard the Research, Tytler was also tasked with ethnographic and scientific documentation, including drawing native peoples, collecting specimens, and recording the voyage’s proceedings. His work on cholera, which he erroneously attributes at least in part to the consumption of diseased rice, provides firsthand clinical observations and epidemiological data from Jessore, where the pandemic is believed to have originated. The second and third works in the present volume are the English and Latin editions, apparently published simultaneously, of his 1821 work on the classification of diseases, reflecting early 19th-century efforts to systematically categorize illnesses based on observable symptoms, anatomical location, and presumed causes. This work was re-printed in its Latin form in The London Medical and Physical Journal in April 1822 (no. 278) on the recommendation of Dr John Webster, who says of it: ‘As it is interesting, from its novelty, – from the peculiar views which it contains, – and from the place where it is published, I think it may prove acceptable to the profession in England’.
3 works in one volume, octavo (211 x 138mm). Woodcut tailpiece at rear of first work (the first work wormed into text, some wormholes repaired, the second and third works less so). Later 19th-century half roan over patterned cloth (lightly rubbed, short splits at joints). Provenance: Dr Nottidge Charles Macnamara (1832–1918, a British surgeon, ophthalmologist and author of the 1876 publication A History of Asiatic Cholera; ownership inscription [‘C. Macnamara / 1873’] on first title) – Royal Society of Medicine (ink stamps [Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society]).
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