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1. An account of the Benevolent Institution: with a list of the governors annexed

19. The eye and its diseases

23. The hospital pupil's guide through London, in a seres [sic] of letters: from a pupil at St. Thomas's Hospital to his friend in the country ; recommending the best manner of a pupils employing his time, and interspersed with amusing anecdotes relative to the history and oeconomy of hospital's

27. Important information to the afflicted with rheumatism coughs and colds gout asthmas itch bruises head-ache corns worms chilblains or local pains frozen feet palsy nervous disorders humours on the face and skin rheumatic gout consumptions windy complaints inward weaknesses scurvy bilious disorders juvenile indiscretions and most disorders incident to human nature

30. An inaugural dissertation on digitalis purpurea, or fox-glove: and its use in some diseases : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

35. An inquiry into the effects of light in respiration: submitted, as an inaugural essay, to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

37. An inquiry into the modus operendi of that class of medicines called sedatives: submitted, as an inaugural dissertation, to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

38. Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine

39. Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine

40. Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine (Volume 1)

41. Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine (Volume 2)

43. Marriage, birth, and death returns: copy of sections of the law defining duties of clergymen, coroners, physicians, midwives, undertakers, etc

48. Mental, or Christian healing

49. The midwives monitor, and mothers mirror: being three concluding lectures of a course of instruction on midwifery ; containing directions for pregnant women ; rules for the management of natural births, and for early discovering when the aid of a physician is necessary ; and cautions for nurses, respecting both the mother and child ; to which is prefixed, a syllabus of lectures on that subject

51. A new physical system of astronomy: an attempt to explain the operations of the powers which impel the planets and comets to perform eliptical revolutions round the sun, and revolve on their own axis : in which, the physical system of Sir Isaac Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted ; to which is annexed, a physiological treatise ; in which the first stage of animation is considered, and the means shewn, by which circulation is performed in the first rudiments of the incipient animal, before the vessels are completely organized, &c. ; together with an explanation of the general laws, by which the animal economy is governed ; and particularly, the mode whereby the operations of the vis medicatrix naturae, or the unassisted powers of nature, are exerted to obviate and cure disease ; also, successful methods of curing cancerous ulcers, the quartan ague, putrid fevers, stopping mortifications, and extracting frost, so as to leave the frozen member perfectly well

52. The nurse, a poem

54. Occasional essays on the yellow fever: containing a number of remarkable relative facts, as well as some encouraging ideas, that those cities of America, which for more than ninety successive years, had been generally preserved from the dreadful evil, may by the divine blessing on wise and prudent measures, experience in future, a similar preservation from the dire calamities of a mortal pestilence : addressed to those who have not forgotten what has happened, within a few years, among their friends and fellow citizens

55. Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body: exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions ... : read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath

58. Our hobby

61. Poverty, its cause and cure: pointing out the means by which the working classes may raise themselves from their present state of low wages and ceaseless toil to one of comfort, dignity, and independence : and which is also capable of entirely removing, in course of time, the other principal social evils

62. Price list

65. A prospect of exterminating the small-pox, being the history of the Variolae vaccinae, or kine-pox, commonly called the cow-pox: as it has appeared in England : with an account of a series of inoculations performed for the kine-pox, in Massachusetts

66. The prudent housewife, or Compleat English cook: being a collection of the newest and least expensive receipes in cookery ... ; and new and infallible rules to be observed in pickling, preserving, brewing, &c ; to which are added, a treasure of valuable medicines, for the cure of every disorder

68. A report of an action for a libel: brought by Dr. Benjamin Rush, against William Cobbett, in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, December term, 1799, for certain defamatory publications in a news-paper, entitled Porcupine's gazette, of which the said William Cobbett was editor

71. A sketch of the rise and progress of the yellow fever, and of the proceedings of the Board of Health, in Philadelphia, in the year 1799: to which is added, a collection of facts and observations respecting the origin of the yellow fever in this country ; and a review of the different modes of treating it

80. York Lunatic Asylum: the charity, which bears the name of York Lunatic Asylum was first established in 1777, by general subscription : and had for its first object the cure and relief of such insane persons as were in low circumstances