History of Medicine in New Jersey, and of its Medical Men, from the Settlement of the Province to A.D. 1800.

8vo, brown cloth, gilt partial title on spine, 449 pp. Ex-library copy (South River, NJ), library stamp on endpapers and title, some foxing, browning and aging, a little extremity wear; otherwise very good. Wickes a doctor himself was a member of the Medical Society of New Jersey, the AMA, and the New Jersey Historical Society. This is a somewhat scare title that includes coverage of a range of subjects from early inoculation practices to military hospitals. In the second part of the work, Wickes includes brief biographical sketches of New Jersey physicians.