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3. An account of the contagious epidemic yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia in the summer and autumn of 1797: comprising the questions of its causes and domestic origin, characters, medical treatment, and preventives

Author(s):
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833
Publication:
Philadelphia : From the press of Snowden & M'Corkle, no. 47, North Fourth-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

5. Cases and observations

Author(s):
Medical Society of New-Haven County.
Publication:
New-Haven : Printed by J. Meigs, 1788
Subject(s):
Medicine

8. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery, originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice: equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Bonsal & Niles, for Robert Campbell, bookseller, Philadelphia, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

9. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery: originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice, equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):
Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed for Robert Cambell [sic] & Co, 1797
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

12. The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion: ascertained, from a variety of trials, made chiefly by surgeons of His Majesty's Navy, in prisons, hospitals, and on board of ships : with an introduction respecting the nature of the contagion, which gives rise to the jail or hospital fever ; and the various methods formerly employed to prevent or destroy this

Author(s):
Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799
Subject(s):
Nitrous Acid -- therapeutic use
Disease Outbreaks
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
Military Medicine

22. God glorified in his works of providence and grace: a remarkable instance of it, in the various and signal deliverances, that evidently appear to be wrought for Mrs. Mercy Wheeler, of Plainfield ; who was restored from extreme impotence, and long confinement ; published at the desire of many

Author(s):
Lord, Benjamin, 1694-1784
Publication:
[Hartford] : Boston : printed in the year 1743 ; Hartford : re-printed by Elisha Babcock, 1798
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Wheeler, Mercy, 1706-1796.

25. An inaugural dissertation on the Polygala senega, commonly called seneca snake-root: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.S.T.P., provost, the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of May, 1798, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Winston, Isaac.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff, no. 27 Arch-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Polygala
Phytotherapy
Plants, Medicinal

26. An inaugural dissertation on the bilious malignant fever: bead at a public examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors in the university at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 10, 1797

Author(s):
Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805
Publication:
[Boston] : Printed at Boston by Manning & Loring, 1797
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Boston -- epidemiology

27. An inaugural dissertation on the cynanche trachealis: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York : William Samuel Johnson, LL. D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the thirtieth day of April, 1793

Author(s):
Borrowe, Samuel, 1766?-1828
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, 1793
Subject(s):
Croup

28. An inaugural dissertation on the use of the nitric and oxigenated muriatic acids, in some diseases: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the twenty-second day of May, 1798 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Prioleau, Philip Gendron, -1844
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren, MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Subject(s):
Nitric Acid -- therapeutic use
Hydrochloric Acid -- therapeutic use
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- therapy

29. An inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to disprove the doctrine of the putrefaction of the blood of living animals: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees, and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine ; on the 8th. day of May, A.D. 1793

Author(s):
Seybert, Adam, 1773-1825
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):
Blood Physiological Phenomena

30. An inaugural dissertation, shewing in what manner pestilential vapours acquire their acid quality, and how this is neutralized and destroyed by alkalies: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College, in the state of New-York, William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic, on the 2d day of May, 1798

Author(s):
Lent, Adolph C.
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. & J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Alkalies
Disease Outbreaks

31. Longevity: being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity

Author(s):
Hoffman, Christian.
Publication:
New-York : Printed and sold by Jacob S. Mott, no. 7. Vesey-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Bible
Longevity

32. Medical inquiries and observations: containing an account of the bilious and remitting and intermitting yellow fever,as it appeared in Philadelphia in the year 1794 ; together with an inquiry into the proximate cause of fever ; and a defence of blood-letting as a remedy for certain diseases

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, at the stone-house, no 41, South Second-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Fever
Bloodletting
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

33. Memoirs of the yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia, and other parts of the United States of America, in the summer and autumn of the present year, 1798: including, tables of the weather, and the daily returns of the sick and dead ; the proceedings of the Board of Health, and Guardians of the Poor ; with the various events of each day, noted at the time of their occurrence ; and the publications which appeared in the different newspapers, during the continuance of the disease, dissections at Boston, &c. &c. ; to which is added, a collections of facts respecting the origin of the fever

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by John Bioren for Thomas Dobson ..., 1798
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
History, 18th Century
United States -- epidemiology

35. Observations and experiments on the use of enemata, and the external application of medicines to the human body: being an inaugural thesis, submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees, and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of May, 1798, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Hahn, John.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Stephen C. Ustick, 1798
Subject(s):
Enema

39. A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery: with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases

Author(s):
Smellie, William, 1697-1763
Publication:
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas ; sold at his bookstore in Worcester ; by said Thomas, and Andrews, Faust's Statue, Newbury Street, Boston ; and by said Thomas, and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Delivery, Obstetric
Parturition
Medical Illustration

42. A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women: and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases

Author(s):
White, Charles, 1728-1813
Publication:
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas ; sold at his bookstore in Worcester ; sold also by said Thomas, and Andrews, Faust's Statue, Newbury Street, Boston ; and by said Thomas, and Carlisle, in Walpole, Newhampshire, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):
Pregnancy Complications -- prevention & control
Delivery, Obstetric

44. A view of ehe [sic] science of life: on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta

Author(s):
Yates, William, active 1797
Publication:
Whitehall [Pa.] : Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1797
Subject(s):
Medicine
Disease
Disease Outbreaks
Brown, John, 1735-1788.

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