Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands

The English doctor John Davy (1790-1868) was the younger brother of the chemist Sir Humphry Davy, of whom he wrote a memoir, also reissued in this series. After graduating from Edinburgh University, he entered the Army as a surgeon and was posted overseas. From 1824 to 1835 he was stationed in the Mediterranean, and later at Constantinople. Davy took detailed notes of the places he visited and the people he met, and turned some of these writings into books; his scientific observations led to him being made a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834. Davy's account of his time in the Mediterranean was published in two volumes in 1842. Volume 1 discusses at length the geological and climatic aspects of Malta and the Ionian Islands. Volume 2 discusses governance, arts, commerce, education, and Davy's impressions of the people of the Ionian Islands and includes chapters focusing on medical issues.

Sketch of the present government of the Ionian Islands
On the state of the arts in the Ionian Islands
Miscellaneous notices of some of the utensils, implements, and processes in use in the Ionian Islands
On the commerce of the Ionian Islands
On the state of knowledge in the Ionian Islands, and on the means of education
On the charitable institutions of the Ionian Islands
On the character and general condition of the people of the Ionian Islands
Notice of a journey through the mountainous district of Zante, in 1824
Miscellaneous remarks; with extracts from journals, in farther illustration of the state of the people in the Ionian Islands
On malaria and the fevers of the Ionian Islands
On the fevers of Malta
On the climate of the Mediterranean, in relation to pulmonary consumption
Observations on quarantine
On the small-pox of 1830âÇô1, in Malta
On the climate of Constantinople, and on some of the habits of the people in connexion with climate and health
Notice of some of the public institutions in Constantinople, in connexion with the present state of Turkey
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Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta

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