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1. 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

2. Observations relative to the means of preserving health in armies

Author(s):: Committee of Defence (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication:: [Philadelphia : s.n., 1814]
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
Warfare
United States

3. Circular. No. 7

Author(s):: United States. Surgeon-General's Office.
Publication:: Washington, D.C. : Surgeon General's Office, [1862]
Subject(s):: Nurses -- supply & distribution
Personnel Administration, Hospital
Hospitals, Military
American Civil War
United States
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.
United States. Army.

4. An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution

Author(s):: Beck, John B. (John Brodhead), 1794-1851
Publication:: Albany : Van Benthuysen, printer, 1850
Subject(s):: History of Medicine
History, 18th Century
United States

5. A treatise on the law of idiocy and lunacy

Author(s):: Highmore, Anthony, 1758-1829
Publication:: Exeter, N.H. : G. Lamson, 1822
Subject(s):: Forensic Psychiatry
United States
England

6. Medical education: the annual discourse before the Philadelphia County Medical Society : delivered December 29, 1852

Author(s):: Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872
Publication:: Philadelphia : Published by the Society, 1853
Subject(s):: Education, Medical
United States

7. Report of a committee of the associate members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of the nature and treatment of yellow fever

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1862
Subject(s):: Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Military Personnel
United States

8. Report of a committee appointed by the Sanitary Commission to prepare a paper on the value of vaccination in armies

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1861
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Vaccination
Smallpox -- prevention & control
United States

9. To the loyal women of America

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : The Commission, 1861]
Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies
Gift Giving
American Civil War
United States

10. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of scurvy, with special reference to practice in the Army and Navy

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Washington : G.P.O., 1862
Subject(s):: Military Medicine
Military Personnel
Scurvy
United States

11. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the [su]bject of amputations

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Boston : Clapp, printer, 1861
Subject(s):: Military Medicine
Amputation
United States

12. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the United States Sanitary Commission, on the subject of pneumonia

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: [Washington, D.C.] : Printed for circulation by the United States Sanitary Commission, 1863
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Pneumonia -- therapy
United States

13. Familiar lectures on botany, practical, elementary, and physiological: with an appendix containing descriptions of the plants of the United States and exotics, &c., for the use of seminaries and private students

Author(s):: Phelps, Lincoln, Mrs., 1793-1884
Publication:: Hartford : Huntington, 1836
Subject(s):: Plants
United States

14. Report on military hygiene and therapeutics: report of committee on military surgery to the Surgical Section of the New York Academy of Medicine

Author(s):: Post, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1806-1886
Publication:: [Washington, D.C.] : Printed for circulation by the United States Sanitary Commission, 1865
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
Military Medicine
Therapeutics
United States

15. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of amputations through the foot, and at the ankle-joint

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Printed by R. Craighead, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Medicine
Amputation -- methods
Foot -- surgery
Ankle Joint -- surgery
United States

16. Report of a committee of the associated medical members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of continued fevers

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Washington : G.P.O., 1862
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Fever
Typhoid Fever
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne
United States

17. Report of a committee of the associate members of the Sanitary Commission on dysentery

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Collins, printer, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Dysentery
United States

18. Rules for preserving the health of the soldier

Author(s):: Van Buren, W. H. (William Holme), 1819-1883
Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : Sanitary Commission, 1861]
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
United States

19. Report of a committee appointed by resolution of the Sanitary Commission, to prepare a paper on the use of quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Washington : McGill, Witherow & Co., printers, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Malaria -- drug therapy
Malaria -- prevention & control
Quinine -- therapeutic use
United States

20. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of venereal diseases, with special reference to practice in the Army and Navy

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Trow, printer, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Medicine
Military Personnel
Sexually Transmitted Diseases -- therapy
United States

21. The organizing of the American Medical Association: read before the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Feb., 1852

Author(s):: Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed for the society, 1852
Subject(s):: Societies, Medical
United States
American Medical Association.

22. Report of a committee of the associate members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of the nature and treatment of miasmatic fevers

Author(s):: Metcalfe, John T. (John Thomas), -1902
Publication:: New York : Baillier̀e Brothers, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Malaria
United States

23. Circular: New-York, 4th March, 1818 : sir, we are instructed to transmit to you the annexed documents of the Medical Society of the State of New-York, respecting the formation of a national pharmacopoeia

Author(s):: Medical Society of the State of New York (1807- )
Publication:: [New York : s.n., 1818]
Subject(s):: Pharmacopoeias as Topic
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Materia Medica
United States

24. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of the treatment of fractures in military surgery

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1862
Subject(s):: Fractures, Bone -- therapy
Military Medicine -- methods
United States

25. Hints for the control and prevention of infectious diseases, in camps, transports, and hospitals

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1863
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
Communicable Diseases -- transmission
Communicable Disease Control
United States

26. Medical education in the United States: an address delivered to the students of the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction, at the close of the session of 1846

Author(s):: Stillé, Alfred, 1813-1900
Publication:: Philadelphia : Isaac Ashmead, printer, 1846
Subject(s):: Education, Medical
United States

27. A lecture on some of the diseases of a literary life: delivered before the American Institute, August 23, 1832

Author(s):: Hayward, George, 1791-1863
Publication:: Boston : Carter, Hendee, 1833
Subject(s):: Occupational Diseases
Writing
United States

28. Valedictory address delivered before the graduates of Pennsylvania Medical College: session of 1842--3

Author(s):: Bird, Robert Montgomery, 1806-1854
Publication:: Philadelphia : Merrihew & Thompson, Printers, 1843
Subject(s):: Clinical Competence
Education, Medical -- standards
United States

29. Address delivered at the Medical College of Georgia: on opening the course of lectures, 17th October, 1837

Author(s):: Eve, Paul F. (Paul Fitzsimmons), 1806-1877
Publication:: Augusta, Ga. : Printed by Guien & Thompson, 1838
Subject(s):: African Americans
Education, Medical
United States
Medical College of Georgia (1833-1873)

30. Report upon legal restrictions for the control of the sale of poisons and dangerous drugs

Author(s):: Guthrie, C. B.
Publication:: [United States : s.n., 1859?]
Subject(s):: Poisons
Drug and Narcotic Control
United States

31. Practical views on medical education, submitted to the members of the American Medical Association

Author(s):: Harvard Medical School.
Publication:: Boston : D. Clapp, 1850
Subject(s):: Education, Medical
Schools, Medical
United States

32. Extracts from the reports of the Chief of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Navy Department, for 1863 and 1864

Publication:: [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1865?]
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Medical Staff
Salaries and Fringe Benefits
Personnel Turnover
American Civil War
United States
United States. Navy Department Medical Service Corps.

33. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission on the subject of amputations

Author(s):: Slade, D. D. (Daniel Denison), 1823-1896
Publication:: [Washington, D.C.? : s.n., 1861]
Subject(s):: Amputation
Military Medicine
United States

34. An address on the botany of the United States: delivered before the Society for the Promotion of Useful Arts, at the capitol, in the city of Albany, on the 9th day of February, 1814 : to which is added, a catalogue of plants indigenous to the state of New-York

Author(s):: Green, Jacob, 1790-1841
Publication:: Albany : Printed by Websters and Skinners, 1814
Subject(s):: Plants
Plants, Medicinal
New York
United States

35. Rules for preserving the health of the soldier

Author(s):: Van Buren, W. H. (William Holme), 1819-1883
Publication:: [Washington : Government Printing Office, 1861]
Subject(s):: Health
Military Personnel
United States

36. Camp inspection return

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: [Washington, D.C. : s.n., 1861?]
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
American Civil War
United States

37. A plea of humanity in behalf of medical education: the annual address delivered before the New-York State Medical Society and members of the legislature at the capitol, February 6, 1849

Author(s):: Stevens, Alexander H. (Alexander Hodgdon), 1789-1869
Publication:: New York : H. Ludwig & Co., printers, 1849
Subject(s):: Education, Medical
United States

38. An introductory lecture on the comparative state of the profession of medicine, and of medical education in the United States and Europe: session MDCCCXLVI-VII

Author(s):: Revere, John, 1787-1847
Publication:: New York : Printed for the medical class of the university at the Herald job office, 1846-7 [i.e. 1846]
Subject(s):: Education, Medical
United States
Europe

39. The prospective progress of medicine in America: a valedictory address delivered before the graduating class at the first annual commencement of the New-York Medical College

Author(s):: Green, Horace, 1802-1866
Publication:: New-York : Baker, Godwin & Co., printers, 1851
Subject(s):: Medicine -- trends
United States

40. Report of a committee of the associate medical members of the Sanitary Commission, on the subject of pneumonia

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Baker & Godwin, printers, 1862
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Pneumonia -- therapy
United States

41. Medical sketches of the campaigns of 1812, 13, 14: to which are added, surgical cases : observations on military hospitals : and flying hospitals attached to a moving army : also, an appendix, comprising a dissertation on dysentery ... and observations on the winter epidemic of 1815-16, denominated peripneumonia notha : as it appeared at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts

Author(s):: Mann, James, 1759-1832
Publication:: Dedham [Mass.] : Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
Military Medicine
Warfare
United States

42. A plea for stability and permanence in institutions of learning: delivered before the trustees, officers and students of the Cleveland Medical College, February 26, 1845

Author(s):: Pierce, George E. (George Edmund), 1794-1871
Publication:: Cleveland : Younglove's Steam Power Press, 1845
Subject(s):: Education
Universities
United States

43. Report of a committee appointed by resolution of the Sanitary Commission, to prepare a paper on the use of quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases

Author(s):: United States Sanitary Commission.
Publication:: New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., 1861
Subject(s):: Military Personnel
Malaria -- drug therapy
Malaria -- prevention & control
Quinine -- therapeutic use
United States

44. Report on the condition of the troops, and the operations of the Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi, for the three months ending November 30th, 1861

Author(s):: Newberry, J. S. (John Strong), 1822-1892
Publication:: Cleveland : Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., printers, 1861
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
United States

45. Report concerning the Woman's Central Association of Relief at New York: to the U.S. Sanitary Commission at Washington

Publication:: New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1861
Subject(s):: Military Hygiene
Charities -- organization & administration
Relief Work
American Civil War
United States
Woman's Central Association of Relief.

46. Minutes of the proceedings of the Quarantine Convention: held at Philadelphia by invitation of the Philadelphia Board of Health, May 13-15, 1857

Author(s):: National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention (1857 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication:: Philadelphia : Crissy & Markley, printers, 1857
Subject(s):: Quarantine
Public Health
United States