James L. Tyson, M.D.

Tyson, James L. DIARY OF A PHYSICIAN IN CALIFORNIA: BEING THE RESULTS OF ACTUAL EXPERIENCE INCLUDING NOTES OF THE JOURNEY BY LAND AND WATER AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE CLIMATE, SOIL, RESOURCES OF THE COUNTRY. Oakland: Biobooks, 1955.
Published in New York in 1850 by D. Appleton & Company.  One of the most interesting narratives of the early days of the Gold Rush.  It was written with no view to its publication being merely a compilation from hasty pencilings to a friend, made during a voyage to, residence in, and return from California.  Throughout this time, opportunities were presented of witnessing disease under the different forms in which it exists, not only on the Isthmus and near the latitude of the equator, and in the course of the voyage, but at the mines, where the health of so many was sacrificed in the pursuit of gold.  It was thought that its publication might be a means of conveying some hints to the emigrant which might in some degree enable him to overcome the evils with which he was menaced, not only on his passage, but after he has taken up his abode in the mines.
Sacramento Room
SPE 979.404 T994 1955 CAL