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1. First report of the Committee on Public Hygiene of the American Medical Association: read at the annual meeting, held in Boston, May 1849 : with an appendix containing sketches of the sanitary condition of the cities of Concord, Portland, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Lowell, Baltimore, Charleston, New Orleans, Louisville, and Cincinnati

Author(s):
American Medical Association. Committee on Public Hygiene.
Publication:
Philadelphia : T.K. and P.G. Collins, printers, 1849
Subject(s):
Public Health
Sanitation
United States

2. The committee appointed "to prepare a nomenclature of diseases adapted to the United States, having reference to a general registration of deaths," beg leave to submit the following report

Author(s):
Griscom, John H. (John Hoskins), 1809-1874, author
Shattuck, Lemuel, 1793-1859, author
Beck, Theodric Romeyn, 1791-1855, author
Jarvis, Edward, 1803-1884, author
Emerson, G. (Gouverneur), 1796-1874, author
National Medical Convention (1846 : New York, N.Y.). Committee to Prepare a Nomenclature of Diseases Adapted to the United States, Having Reference to a General Registration of Deaths, author.
Publication:
[United States?] : [publisher not identified], [1847?]
Subject(s):
Vital Statistics
Terminology as Topic
United States

8. Rules for the government of the American Medical Association, at its second annual meeting, held at Boston, May, 1849: prepared by order of the Committee of Arrangements, and in accordance with the by-laws of the Association : to which is added a list of officers for 1848-49, and of all the delegates whose credentials, from the various local societies in the United States, have been received by the Secretary

Author(s):
American Medical Association, author.
Publication:
[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1849?]
Subject(s):
Societies, Medical -- organization & administration
United States
American Medical Association.

10. The American botanist, and family physician: in which the medical virtues of the mineral, animal and vegetable productions of North America are exhibited, together with their uses in the practice of physic and surgery : some of which are selected from Dr. Stearns, and other authors, but mostly original : comprehending a treatise upon the principal disorders of the climate, together with directions for preparing, compounding, and applying proper medicines for their cure : likewise, a large number of Indian discoveries in the medical art, never before published

Author(s):
Monroe, John, active 19th century, author
Publication:
Wheelock (Vt.) : Jonathan Morrison, 1824
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal
United States

16. Sick and disabled seamen, marine hospital, &c. &c: March 2, 1830, read and referred to the Committee on Commerce : letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting statements of the manner and cost of providing for sick and disabled seamen, &c. &c : of moneys received from collectors of customs, as also appropriations in aid thereof, with the annual expenditure on account of sick and disabled seamen, from 1802 to 1830, &c. &c

Author(s):
Ingham, Samuel D. (Samuel Delucenna), 1779-1860, author
Publication:
[Washington D.C.?] : [Government Printing Office?], [1830]
Subject(s):
Military Personnel
Hospitals, Military -- economics
United States

19. Deaf and dumb: Memorial of the trustees of the Kentucky Institution for the Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons. February 20, 1826. Read, and referred to the committee of the whole House, to which is referred the bill for the benefit of the said institution

Author(s):
Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.
Publication:
Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1826
Subject(s):
Education of Hearing Disabled -- economics
Schools
Financing, Government
Deafness
Kentucky
United States
Kentucky Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb.

20. Dr. W. Judkins' Patent Specific Ointment: made and sold, wholesale and retail, at Billerca, Middlesex County, Mass. by Samuel Parker, exclusive proprietor for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York, and six counties in New Jersey : to the public

Author(s):
Judkins, William, author
Publication:
[Middlesex, Mass.?] : [Samuel Parker], [1816?]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Neoplasms -- therapy
Rheumatic Diseases -- therapy
Skin Diseases -- therapy
Wounds and Injuries -- therapy
United States

25. Ardent spirits--midshipmen: letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting opinions of surgeons of the navy, in relation to allowing to the midshipmen of the navy of the United States, ardent spirits as a part of their rations

Author(s):
United States. Navy Department.
Publication:
[Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1830?]
Subject(s):
Military Personnel -- legislation & jurisprudence
Alcohol Drinking -- adverse effects
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
United States

34. Vegetable materia medica of the United States, or, Medical botany: containing a botanical, general, and medical history, of medicinal plants indigenous to the United States ; illustrated by coloured engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author

Author(s):
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and published by M. Carey & Son, 1817-1818 [i.e. 1817-1819]
Subject(s):
Plants, Medicinal
Phytotherapy
United States

45. Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States: compiled from the records of the Surgeon General's and Adjutant General's Offices : embracing a period of twenty years, from January, 1819, to January, 1839

Author(s):
United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Publication:
Washington [D.C.] : Printed by Jacob Gideon, Jr., 1840
Subject(s):
Military Personnel -- statistics & numerical data
Morbidity
Mortality
United States

58. The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy: together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry: comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's second edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful aparatus

Author(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by A. Bartram, for Thomas Dobson ..., 1806
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Pharmacology
United States

60. An essay on the climate of the United States: or, an inquiry into the causes of the difference in climate between the eastern side of the continent of North America and Europe ; with practical remarks on the influence of climate on agriculture, and particularly the cultivation of the vine

Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Hopkins and Earle ; Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1809
Subject(s):
Climate
Agriculture
United States
Europe

65. A reply to Dr. Haygarth's "Letter to Dr. Percival, on infectious fevers": and his "Address to the College of Physicians at Philadelphia, on the prevention of the American pestilence," exposing the medical, philosophical, and literary errors of that author, and vindicating the right which the faculty of the United States have to think and decide for themselves, respecting the diseases of their own country, uninfluenced by the notions of the physicians of Europe

Author(s):
Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printer by Thomas and William Bradford ..., 1802
Subject(s):
Communicable Diseases
Disease Outbreaks
United States
Haygarth, John, 1740-1827.

67. The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy: together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine : illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with sevearl copperplates exhibiting the new systems of chemical characters, and representing the most useful appratus

Author(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson ..., William Fry, printer, 1814
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Pharmacology
United States

68. The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy: together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine; illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus

Author(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson and Son ..., William Fry, printer, 1818
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Pharmacology
Materia Medica
United States

70. The American dispensatory, containing the operations of pharmacy: together with the natural, chemical, pharmaceutical and medical history of the different substances employed in medicine : illustrated and explained, according to the principles of modern chemistry : comprehending the improvements in Dr. Duncan's fourth edition of the Edinburgh new dispensatory : the arrangement simplified, and the whole adapted to the practice of medicine and pharmacy in the United States : with several copperplates, exhibiting the new system of chemical characters, and representing the most useful apparatus

Author(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Thomas Dobson ..., Fry and Kammerer, printers, 1810
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Pharmacology
United States

71. The botanist & physician: containing a description of the principal active medicinal plants found in the middle and northern states of America, with directions relative to their preparation, administration & use in the cure of diseases : to which is prefixed, an outline of the Linnaean system of botany, intended as an introduction and glossary to the work : all designed for the use of families and the young student in botany

Author(s):
Harlow, Samuel.
Publication:
Kingston, N. Y. : Printed by William Culley, 1831
Subject(s):
Botany
Plants, Medicinal
United States

77. The water cure in America: two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water, by Drs. Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice : notices of the water cure establishments : descriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading

Author(s):
Phinney, H. F.
Publication:
New York & London : Wiley and Putnam, 1848
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
United States

79. A treatise containing a plan for the internal organization and government of marine hospitals, in the United States: together with observations on military and flying hospitals, and a scheme for amending and systematizing the medical department of the Navy

Author(s):
Barton, William P. C. (William Paul Crillon), 1786-1856
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for the author, and sold only by him, 1817
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Military -- organization & administration
Naval Medicine -- organization & administration
United States
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.).
United States. Navy. Medical Department

82. The water cure in America: two hundred and twenty cases of various diseases treated with water by Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shieferdecker, and others : with cases of domestic practice, notices of the water cure establishments, decriptive catalogue of hydropathic publications, etc. : designed for popular as well as professional reading

Author(s):
Phinney, H. F.
Publication:
New York : Wiley and Putnam, 1848
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
United States

91. The medical student, or, Aids to the study of medicine: including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing, bibliographical notices of medical works, the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c

Author(s):
Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869
Publication:
Philadelphia : Carey, Lea & Blanchards, 1837
Subject(s):
Medicine
Education, Medical
Schools, Medical
Terminology as Topic
United States

94. An oration on the causes of the difference, in point of frequency and force, between the endemic diseases of the United States of America, and those of the countries of Europe : delivered, by appointment, to the "Philadelphia Medical Society," on the fifth day of February, 1802

Author(s):
Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. and William Bradford ..., 1802
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
United States
Europe

97. A synopsis of the genera of American plants, according to the latest improvements on the Linnaean system: with the new genera of Michaux and others : intended for the use of students in botany

Author(s):
Rich, O. (Obadiah), 1777-1850
Publication:
Georgetown, District of Columbia : Printed by J.M. Carter, for J. Milligan, and Richards and Mallory, Georgetown [and 5 others], 1814
Subject(s):
Plants -- classification
United States

100. The farmer's materia medica: containing a list of the most useful medicinal vegetables indigenous to the United States, with their qualities : with an appendix, containing some observations on fevers, and symptoms of various diseases, together with many other remarks and observations

Author(s):
Merwin, John C.
Publication:
Watertown [N.Y.] : Printed by W. Woodward, 1825
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Materia Medica
Plants, Medicinal
United States