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2. A treatise on domestic medicine: pointing out, in plain language, and as free from professional terms as possible, the nature, symptoms, causes, probable terminations, and treatment of all diseases incident to men, women, and children, in both cold and warm climates : as also, appropriate prescriptions in English, and the doses of medicine which are suitable to different ages : including likewise effectual means for preventing the extension of all infectious diseases, and annihilating the power of every kind of contagion, and rules for enabling Europeans who visit a warm climate to escape the yellow fever, and long enjoy a good state of health

Author(s):
Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835
Publication:
New York : Collins, 1822
Subject(s):
Medicine

10. Tea and coffee

Author(s):
Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859
Publication:
Boston : G.W. Light, 1839
Subject(s):
Tea
Coffee

43. The medical formulary: being a collection of prescriptions derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe : together with the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons : to which is added an appendix, on the endermic use of medicines, and on the use of ether and chloroform : the whole accompanied with a few brief pharmaceutical and medical observations

Author(s):
Ellis, Benjamin, 1798-1831
Publication:
Philadelphia : Blanchard & Lea, 1864
Subject(s):
Pharmaceutical Preparations

45. A discourse upon the duties of a physician: with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital : delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769 : as advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university

Author(s):
Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821
Publication:
New-York : Printed by A. & J. Robertson, 1769
Subject(s):
Ethics, Medical
Education, Medical
Hospitals, Public
United States

46. A short practical narrative of the diseases which prevailed among the American seamen, at Wampoa in China: in the year 1805 : with some account of diseases which appeared among the crew of the ship New-Jersey, on the passage from thence, to Philadelphia : submitted as an inaugural dissertation, to the examination of the Rev. J. Andrews ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of April, 1807 : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas T. Stiles ..., 1807
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Naval Medicine
China
Philadelphia

47. An inaugural experimental dissertation, being an endeavor to ascertain the morbid effects of carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, on healthy animals, and the manner in which they are produced: which, under the direction of the Rev. John Ewing, D.D. provost of the University of Pennsylvania, by the authority of the Board of Trustees, and with the approbation of the faculty, is submitted to the candid examination of the learned. 19th day of May, 1794 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Bache, William, 1773-1818
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Carbon Dioxide -- physiology
Respiration

57. The practice of medicine on Thomsonian principles: adapted as well to the use of families as to that of the practitioner : containing a biographical sketch of Dr. Thomson, propositions illustrative of the philosophy of Thomsonianism, a brief history of the symptoms, peculiarities, and general course of disease in its different forms and varieties : with practical directions for administering the Thomsonian medicines, including the various methods of administering vapour baths, emetics, &c., and a materia medica adapted to the book

Author(s):
Comfort, J. W. (John W.)
Publication:
Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston, 1863
Subject(s):
Naturopathy

83. Report of the Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts: read before the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, November 1849, and ordered to be published

Author(s):
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts.
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1849?]
Subject(s):
Mortality
Health Status Disparities
Prisoners
Pennsylvania

84. Family medical adviser: giving such information on the practice of physic and the diseases of women and children as may prove useful in families when regular physicians cannot readily be procured : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best medical authors, together with his own observations in the treatment of diseases, generally : to which is annexed anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and many valuable prescriptions, being a useful guide for intelligent heads of families, overseers of plantations and manufactories, masters of vessels, and travelers

Author(s):
Boyd, J.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1845
Subject(s):
Medicine

95. Institution for the cure of consumption in its middle or incipient stage, scrofula in all its various forms, cancerous tumors in their incipient stage, cutaneous diseases, liver complaints, rheumatism, gout, asthma, debility, and all disorders arising from derangment of the digestive organs: by means of American vegetable remedies, a suitable plan of diet and regimen, and Whitlaw's patent medicated vapor baths

Author(s):
Whitlaw, Charles.
Publication:
New York : Press of H.R. Piercy, 1834
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
Phytotherapy
Steam

100. The practical proofs of the soundness of the Hygeian system of physiology: selected from the appendix of "Morisoniana", as incontrovertible testimonies to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicine : including, with other important matter, "The origin of life, and cause of all disease explained", and an entirely new view of the origin of the small pox virus, and of its being most certainly eradicable, or rendered harmless

Publication:
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Moat, 1831
Subject(s):
Nostrums
Cholera