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704. An historical account of the climates and diseases of the United States of America: and of the remedies and methods of treatment, which have been found most useful and efficacious, particularly in those diseases which depend upon climate and situation : collected principally from personal observation, and the communications of physicians of talents and experience, residing in the several states

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson ..., MDCCXCII [1792]
Subject(s):
Topography, Medical
Climate
United States

705. An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia: containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations ; together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank in Market-Street, between Second and Third Streets, [1774]
Subject(s):
History of Medicine
Medicine, Traditional
Indians, North American
United States

707. The Cherokee physician, or, Indian guide to health: comprising a brief view of anatomy, with general rules for preserving health without the use of medicines : the diseases of the United States, with their symptoms, causes, and means of prevention are explained in simple terms : it also contains a description of a variety of herbs and roots, many of which are not explained in any other book, the medicinal virtues of which have hitherto been unknown to the whites

Author(s):
Foreman, Richard, active 1849-1857
Publication:
New York : Edney, 1857
Subject(s):
Phytotherapy
Indians, North American
United States

712. Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the Linnaean system : containing, the particular distinguishing characters of each genus, with plain, simple and familiar descriptions of the manner of growth, appearance, &c. of their several species and varieties ; also, some hints of their uses in medicine, dyes, and domestic oeconomy

Author(s):
Marshall, Humphry, 1722-1801
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXV [1785]
Subject(s):
Trees -- classification
Phytotherapy
United States

716. A journal, of a young man of Massachusetts: late a surgeon on board an American privateer, who was captured at sea by the British in May, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and was confined first, at Melville island, Halifax, then at Chatham, in England, and last at Dartmoor prison : interspersed with observations, anecdotes and remarks, tending to illustrate the moral and political characters of three nations : to which is added, a correct engraving of Dartmoor prison, representing the massacre of American prisoners

Author(s):
Babcock, Amos G.
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Rowe and Hooper, 1816
Subject(s):
Physicians
Prisoners
Warfare
United States

724. In Senate of the United States: January 10, 1817 read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate : Treasury Department, January 9th, 1817; sir, In obedience to the resolution of the Senate of the 19th ult. relative to the administration of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, I have the honour to transmit the papers marked A and B

Author(s):
United States. Department of the Treasury.
Publication:
[Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]
Subject(s):
Medical Assistance -- economics
Military Personnel
United States

729. An eulogium upon Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of the institutes and practice of medicine and of clinical practice in the University of Pennsylvania: who departed this life April 19, 1813, in the sixty-ninth year of his age : written at the request of the Medical Society of South Carolina, and delivered before them and others, in the Circular Church of Charleston, on the 10th of June, 1813, and published at their request

Author(s):
Ramsay, David, 1749-1815
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Bradford and Inskeep ; and Inskeep and Bradford, New York ; James Maxwell, printer, 1813
Subject(s):
Physicians
United States
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.