John Davy (1790-1868) spent years as an army surgeon, and was stationed in the Mediterranean from 1824 to 1835. He took notes on his surroundings, later published in this two-volume 1842 work. Volume 2 gives observations of society in the islands, and a view of health problems in Constantinople.

A two-volume account of Malta and the Ionian islands, published in 1842 by John Davy, the army surgeon brother of Sir Humphry Davy.