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1. The abuses and scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of inoculation of the small pox, modestly obviated, and inoculation further consider'd in a letter to A- S- M.D. & F.R.S. in London

Author(s):: Douglass, William, approximately 1700-1752
Publication:: Boston : Printed and sold by J. Franklin, at his printing-house in Queen-Street, over against Mr. Sheaf's school, 1722
Subject(s):: Vindication of the ministers of Boston
Smallpox -- prevention & control

2. An account of the numbers that have died of the distemper in the throat, within the province of New-Hampshire: with some reflections thereon ; July 26. 1736

Author(s):: Fitch, Jabez, 1672-1746
Publication:: Boston : Printed [by John Draper] for Eleazer Russel in Portsmouth [and sold by Daniel Henchman in Boston], 1736
Subject(s):: Diphtheria
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
New Hampshire -- epidemiology

3. An almanack for the year of our Lord 1701: calculated for and fitted to the meridian of Boston in New-England, where the North Pole is elevated 42 gr. 30 min. ; but may indifferently serve any part of New-England

Author(s):: Tulley, John, 1638-1701
Publication:: Boston : Printed by B. Green, & J. Allen sold at the printing-house at the south end of the town, 1701 [i.e., 1700?]
Subject(s):: Forecasting
Bloodletting
New England

4. The art of preserving health: a poem

Author(s):: Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Publication:: [Philadelphia] : London, printed : Philadelphia, re-printed, and sold by B. Franklin, MDCCXLV [1745]
Subject(s):: Health Promotion

5. The authentick narrative of the success of tar water: in curing a great number and variety of distempers : with remarks

Author(s):: Prior, Thomas, 1681-1751
Publication:: [Boston] : London, printed 1746. Boston : N.E. re-printed and sold by Rogers and Fowle in Queen-Street, MDCCXLIX [1749]
Subject(s):: Tar-Water

6. A brief rule to guide the common people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small-pox and measels

Author(s):: Thacher, Thomas, 1620-1678
Publication:: [Boston : Printed by Samuel Kneeland, 1721?]
Subject(s):: Smallpox
Measles
New England

7. An essay on fevers, the rattles, & canker

Author(s):: Walton, John, 1694-1764
Publication:: Boston : Printed by T. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill, and sold by T. Hancock, at the Bible and Three Crowns in Anne-Street, 1732
Subject(s):: Fever
Cough
Pneumonia

8. An essay on the West-India dry-gripes: with the method of preventing and curing that cruel distemper ; to which is added, an extraordinary case in physick

Author(s):: Cadwalader, Thomas, 1707 or 1708-1779
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed and sold by B. Franklin, MDCCXLV [1745]
Subject(s):: Lead Poisoning -- therapy
Cathartics
Osteomalacia
Autopsy

9. An essay, on the nature, cause, and seat of dysentery's, in a letter to Dr. Henry Warren of Barbados

Author(s):: Ingram, Dale, 1710-1793
Publication:: Barbados : Printed for William Beeby, [1744]
Subject(s):: Dysentery

10. Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician: prescribing, plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country

Author(s):: Tennent, John, 1710-1748
Publication:: Philadelphia : Re-printed and sold by B. Franklin, near the market, MDCCXXXVI [1736]
Subject(s):: Medicine
Materia Medica