A. B. (Augustus Bozzi) Granville

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A. B. (Augustus Bozzi) Granville

1783–1872

An Italian-born doctor who turned a life of travel into books, he moved through revolutionary Europe, served at sea, and later built a medical career in Britain. He is also remembered for his writing on health, spas, and travel, as well as for early scientific work on the mummy later known as "Mummy 1770."

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Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.

Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.

by A. B. (Augustus Bozzi) Granville

About the author

Born in Milan in 1783, Augustus Bozzi Granville studied medicine and left Italy as a young man during the Napoleonic era. His early career was unusually adventurous: he practiced in parts of the Ottoman world, Spain, and Portugal, joined the British Navy, and traveled to the West Indies before eventually settling in Britain.

In London he became known as a physician, writer, and public figure. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and his interests ranged widely across medicine, public health, travel, and politics. His books helped make him a familiar name to readers interested in spas, sea-bathing, continental travel, and medical life.

Granville is also remembered for one of the earliest modern scientific examinations of an Egyptian mummy, a study that brought him lasting attention beyond medicine. He lived a long life, dying in 1872, and his autobiography reflects the same restless curiosity that shaped both his travels and his work.