Hodgkin also translated with Thomas Fisher, from the French of William-Frédéric Edwards, "On the Influence of Physical Agents on Life" (London, 1832; Philadelphia 1838). Edwards was a vitalist in physiology, who studied the effect of physical forces on processes in living organisms. The work as it appeared in English was much more than a translation, since it contained an appendix of over 200 pages containing two dozen papers, a compendium of medicine and science tangentially related to themes in Edwards, but related to his general approach. It included early work by Hodgkin and collaboration with Lister, as well as something on electricity and meteorology. He also published "The Means of Promoting and Preserving Health" (London, 1840), of which a second edition appeared in 1841, and an "Address on Medical Reform" (1847).