"Public Health in Qajar Iran" is written by Willem Floor with doctoral degree from University of Leiden who studied development economics, nonwestern sociology as well as Persian and Arabic, and Islamology. Dr. Floor has published extensively on the socioeconomic history of Iran. His present study on medicine and public health in Qajar era in Iran provides the readers an overview of public hygiene, major prevalent diseases, and practice of medicine at that time. Dr. Floor has drawn the data necessary for his research mainly from those European observers who have reported on actual practice of medicine, prevalence, and treatment of diseases during Qajar dynasty. Most of these observers were physicians who had practiced medicine in Iran.