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First published 2025 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Romaniello, Matthew P., author.

Title: Europe's laboratory : climate and health in eighteenth-century Russia / Matthew P. Romaniello.

Description: Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2025. | Series: NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2025003332 (print) | LCCN 2025003333 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501783920 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501783937 (epub) | ISBN 9781501783944 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Medical climatology—Russia—History—18th century. | Medical geography—Russia—History—18th century. | Medicine—Research—History—18th century. | Public health—Russia—History—18th century. | Public health—Research—History—18th century.

Classification: LCC RA877 .R55 2025 (print) | LCC RA877 (ebook) | DDC 613/.110947—dc23/eng/20250529

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025003332

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2025003333

Cover art: Ivan Dem'ianovich Bulychev, Kamchadaly (zimniaia stantsiia), 1856. New York Public Library Digital Collections.