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Start Over Formats Text ✖Remove constraint Formats: Text Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Publication Year 1800 to 1899 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1800">1800</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span>

5. Life insurance, its nature, origin and progress: a plain exposition of the principles of life insurance, manner of calculating tables of premium, sources of profit, etc. : containing, also, tables of mortality, annuities, expectation of life, compound interest and rates of premium, together with much other valuable information for parties connected with the business of life insurance as well as for policy holders

Author(s):
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.
Publication:
New-York : John A. Gray, printer, 1858
Subject(s):
Insurance, Life
Insurance Coverage
United States

6. The war of four thousand years: being a connected history of the various efforts made to suppress the vice of intemperance in all ages of the world : from the foundation of the class of Nazarites, by Moses, to the institution of the order of the Sons of Temperance, inclusive : with a full account of the origin, progress, and present prospects of the latter institution

Author(s):
White, Philip S., -1868
Publication:
Philadelphia : Griffith & Simon, 1846
Subject(s):
Temperance
Alcohol Drinking -- adverse effects

13. Proceedings of the Medical Class of the University of Pennsylvania, which led to the employment of a distinguished artist to make a portrait of Dr. Physick: subsequently presented to the Medical Faculty : also, a brief sketch of the address delivered on the occasion by the students, and a condensed report of the sentiments expressed in reply by Dr. Horner and Dr. Hare

Author(s):
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine. Class of 1837.
Publication:
[Philadelphia? : s.n., 1837?]
Subject(s):
Physicians
Portraits as Topic
Anniversaries and Special Events
Philadelphia
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837.

18. Animal magnetism: report of Dr. Franklin and other commissioners, charged by the King of France with the examination of the animal magnetism as practised at Paris : translated from the French, with an historical outline of the "science", an abstract of the report on magnetic experiments made by a committee of the Royal Academy of Medicine in 1831, and remarks on Col. Stone's pamphlet

Author(s):
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790
Publication:
Philadelphia : Perkins, 1837
Subject(s):
Hypnosis

20. [Price list]

Author(s):
P. J. Noyes Co.
Publication:
[Lancaster, N.H. : The Company, 186-]
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations

22. Russian rose balm: a new and highly valuable curative for catarrh, and all catarrhal conditions and inflammations of the mucous surfaces and air passages of the nose, throat, and broncial tubes, such as catarrhal sore throat, cold in the head, hay fever, incipient bronchitis, rose cold, &c

Author(s):
United States Medicine Co.
Publication:
New York : United States Medicine Co., [ca. 1865]
Subject(s):
Nonprescription Drugs
Respiratory Tract Diseases -- drug therapy

23. Analysis of vinegar

Author(s):
Davenport, B. F.
Publication:
[Boston? : s.n., 1865?]
Subject(s):
Acetic Acid

32. The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever: a funeral sermon and a funeral psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America : and on the deaths of an hundred killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the spotted fever

Author(s):
Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819
Publication:
[Newburyport?] : Printed for the author and sold by him, [1812?]
Subject(s):
Earthquakes
Epidemics
Christianity

34. Letters: [received from Augustus A. Gould and others in response to a request for "information in regard to the connection of Dr. C.T. Jackson and Mr. W.T.G. Morton with the ether discovery of the anaesthetic effects of sulphuric ether"]

Publication:
[United States : s.n., 1852?]
Subject(s):
Anesthesia, Inhalation
Dissent and Disputes
Ether
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Morton, W. T. G. (William Thomas Green), 1819-1868.

43. General orders no. 2

Author(s):
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia.
Publication:
[Richmond? : s.n.], 1865
Subject(s):
Ambulances
Military Medicine

45. A case of hydrophobia : with remarks

Author(s):
Gage, Thomas H.
Publication:
Worcester : Tyler & Seagrave, 1865
Subject(s):
Rabies

47. A complete system of farriery, and veterinary medicine: containing a compendium of the veterinary art ... the anatomy and physiology of the foot, and the principles and practice of shoeing : with observations on stable management

Author(s):
White, James, -1825
Publication:
Pittsburgh : Published by R. Patterson and Lambdin ... ; Butler & Lambdin, printers, 1818
Subject(s):
Animal Husbandry
Horses
Horse Diseases
Veterinary Medicine

49. Trial of John Hendrickson, Jr., for the murder of his wife Maria, by poisoning: at Bethlehem, Albany County, N.Y., March 6th, 1853 : tried in the court of oyer and terminer, at Albany, N.Y., in June and July, 1853

Author(s):
Hendrickson, John, 1832-1854
Publication:
Albany : D.M. Barnes and W. S. Hevenor, 1853
Subject(s):
Homicide
Poisoning
Aconitum -- poisoning
New York
Hendrickson, John, 1832-1854.
Hendrickson, Maria, -1853.

52. Catalogue of the extensive and valuable medical, theological, and miscellaneous library of the late John Redman Coxe, M.D: which includes many very rare, valuable, and interesting works in various languages : to be sold by order of executors on Tuesday, November 1st, 1864 and following days until finished, commencing each day at 10 o'clock a.m. at the auction rooms of the subscribers, M. Thomas & Sons, auctioneers

Author(s):
Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864
Publication:
Philadelphia : W.B. Selheimer, printer, 1864
Subject(s):
Medicine

56. The Board of Health, for the port or district of Philadelphia: in the United States of America, to all to whom these presents shall come, greeting : we certify and make known, that through the blessing of God, the city and district of Philadelphia and the vicinity thereof, is entirely free from all kinds of malignant diseases [small pox excepted]

Author(s):
Philadelphia (Pa.). Board of Health.
Publication:
[Philadelphia : Printed by John Poulson, 1806]
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
Smallpox
Philadelphia

64. General treatise on the nature and cause of disease in the human body together with proofs of the efficacy of Vaughn's vegetable lithontriptic mixture: as a general restorer of the system, and purifier of the blood : with numerous testimonials of the most remarkable cures, in cases of dropsy, gravel, liver complaint, scrofula, scurvy, leprosy, bleeding at the lungs, finor albus, piles, putrid sore throat, erysipelas, consumption, &c

Author(s):
Vaughn, George C.
Publication:
Buffalo : Published at the Principal Agency Office, Jewett, Thomas & Co., [1845]
Subject(s):
Nonprescription Drugs

68. Elements of chemistry

Author(s):
Chaptal, Jean-Antoine-Claude, comte de Chanteloup, 1756-1832
Publication:
Boston : Printed by J.T. Buckingham, for Thomas & Andrews ..., 1806
Subject(s):
Chemistry

75. The tongue in diagnosis

Author(s):
Benson, C. Coleman.
Publication:
Baltimore : The author, [1860?]
Subject(s):
Tongue
Diagnosis

89. Six lectures on the functions of the lungs: and causes, prevention, and cure of pulmonary consumption, asthma, and diseases of the heart : on the laws of life : and on the mode of preserving male and female health to a hundred years : also a treatise on medicated inhalation

Author(s):
Fitch, Samuel Sheldon, 1801-1876
Publication:
New-York : S.S. Fitch & Co., 1859
Subject(s):
Lung -- physiology
Lung Diseases
Health Behavior
Longevity

90. Trial of Medad M'Kay for the murder of his wife: before Chief Justice Spencer, 1820, and before His Honor William W. Van Ness, 1821, at Allegany : embracing a brief outline of the former trial, and a detail of the latter : including the testimony, and speeches of Messrs. Collier, Haight, Matthews and Hulbert, with the charge of the judge to the jury

Author(s):
M'Kay, Medad, defendant
Publication:
Albany : Printed by Websters and Skinners ..., 1821
Subject(s):
Homicide
Poisoning
M'Kay, Lucy, -1819.

91. A tour through part of Virginia, in the summer of 1808: in a series of letters, including an account of Harper's Ferry, the Natural Bridge, the new discovery called Weir's Cave, Monticello, and the different medicinal springs, hot and coldbaths, visited by the author

Author(s):
Caldwell, John Edwards, 1769-1819
Publication:
New-York : Printed for the author, H. C. Southwick, printer ..., 1809
Subject(s):
Travel
Mineral Waters
Virginia