[FIRST TYPHOID VACCINES IN TURKEY] تيفو آشيسى / Tifo asisi [i.e. The Typhoid vaccine]

SALIM, TEVFIK [SAGLAM] (1882-1963). Kader Matbaasi, Istanbul, 1922. Original pinkish wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). 88 p. Light foxing and chipping to wrappers, heavy wear to spine, internally very clean copy. First edition of this Ottoman work documenting the author's account of administering the typhus vaccine for the first time on the Eastern and Caucasian fronts on March 15, 1915, while serving with the Ottoman army. Written after Salim's appointment as "Gülhâne Seririyât Dahiliye Muallimi" (Teacher of Clinical Instruction in Internal Medicine at Gülhâne), the book was recognized with an award from the Ottoman Medical Society. The book also details the prices of the vaccine, the regions where the disease was prevalent at the time, the history of typhus, and accounts of the first vaccination efforts in Europe (notably in Tyrol), among other related subjects. Military doctor Tevfik Bey successfully diagnosed a previ