illustrated from their proverbial sayings current at Cairo, tr. and explained by the late John Lewis Burckhardt., "Note of the editor" signed: William Ouseley., "Published by authority of the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior of Africa.", Bound with the author's Notes on the Be ...
par G.B. Depping., Ouvrage qui a été couronné en 1828 par l'Académie royale des inscriptions et belles-lettres., Main Heritage Shelves General, HF1025 .D46 1830 vol.2, Book, vol.2, Item-ID: i20235379, BIB-ID: 1011857, Also issued online.
in 1835 the author was chief surgeon of the Army of the Orient and a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts. Most of the work deals with the plague, which was the most serious problem Desgenettes had to face. He went so far as to inoculate himself with bubo pus to prove to the soldiers that t ...