[SCIENCE / THE FIRST TURKISH BOOK ON MICROBIOLOGY] Mikrob: Emrâz-i sariye ve sarboniyenin vesâil-i sirayeti ve usûl-i telkihleri. [i.e. Microbe]. Translated by Hüseyin Remzi, Hüseyin Hüsnü

DR. HÜSEYIN REMZI, (1839-1896); EDOUARD LOUIS TROUESSART, (1842-1927); CHARLES CHAMBERLAND, (1851-1908).

Mahmud Bey Matbaasi, Istanbul, AH 1304 = [1886]

Contemporary full red cloth with blind-tooled art-nouveau decorations on front and rear boards. Foolscap 8vo. (17 x 12 cm). In Ottoman script (Old Turkish with Arabic letters). [8], 106 p., 14 numbered woodcuts. Occasionally age-tones on pages, light stains on the boards. Overall, a very good copy.

First and only edition of this extremely rare and apparently unrecorded first Turkish book on microbiology including a unique account of microbiological observations in Paris by both authors and features a partial translation of French zoologist Édouard Trouessart’s 1886 book Les microbes, les ferments et les moisissures [i.e., Microbes, Ferments, and Moulds]. Additionally, it contains a dedicated chapter on anthrax disease, written by the French microbiologist Charles Chamberland.

Hüseyin Remzi (1839-1896) prepared this book while serving as a zoology teacher at Mekteb-i Tıbbiye-i Şahâne (The Imperial Ottoman Medical School), in collaboration with Hüseyin Hüsnü Bey, who was a veterinary instructor at the same institution. The chapters featuring both authors' microbiological observations in Paris are particularly significant, representing some of the earliest scientific contributions to the field in Ottoman literature.

The Imperial Military School of Medicine, or the Imperial School of Medicine, was founded in Ottoman Constantinople under the commission of Sultan Mahmud II on March 14, 1827. As the empire’s first medical school, it was modelled on Western institutions and operated under military administration.

Özege 13562.; TBTK 12357.; We couldn’t trace any institutional physical and duplicate copies in OCLC or Library Hub. Not obtainable from online digital sources.