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1. The committee appointed "to prepare a nomenclature of diseases adapted to the United States, having reference to a general registration of deaths," beg leave to submit the following report

24. Family physician: designed to assist heads of families, travellers and seafaring people in discerning, distinguishing, and curing diseases : with directions for the preparation and use of a numerous collection of the best American remedies, together with a large number of valuable receipts for making plasters, ointments, oils, poultices, decoctions, syrups or waters made of herbs, the time of gathering all herbs, the way of drying and keeping the herbs all the year, also the way of making and keeping all kinds of useful compounds made of herbs

37. On diseases of the skin

44. The poor man's friend: containing the infallible cure for the black tongue, with its causes and symptoms : also, the only remedy known to prevent the contagion from attacking those in charge of the patient : with the treatment for measles and scarlet fever, and a collection of fifty valuable remedies for various diseases

53. The lady's own book, or, Female safeguard: containing moral checks to population and a complete practical midwife : it also treats of generation, sterility, impotency, female complaints, the diseases of infants and children, a glossary or medical dictionary, a dispensatory of all the medicines recommended in this work, and many valuable recipes, purely upon reformed medical principles, written in a plain, yet chaste, style, and on moral principles for families and females

61. A compendium of medical science, or, Fifty years' experience in the art of healing: being a plain and practical treatise on the prevention and cure of disease : designed to enlighten the popular mind in the true elementary principles of medicine, and protect the reading public from the mischiefs of quackery

68. A practical treatise on auscultation

77. Organon of the specific healing art

85. Neuropathy, or, The true principles of the art of healing the sick: being an explanation of the action of galvanism, electricity, and magnetism, in the cure of disease : and a comparison between their powers, and those of drugs, or medicines, of all kinds, with a view to determine their relative value and proper uses

86. The water-cure manual: a popular work : embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing, the hygienic and curative effects of air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water-drinking, &c. : together with descriptions of diseases, and the hydropathic means to be employed therein

91. The married woman's private medical companion: embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression : pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases : discovery to prevent pregnancy, its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth : to prevent miscarriage or abortion when proper and necessary, to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety : causes and mode of cure of barrenness or sterility

93. The eye: its imperfections and their prevention : comprising a familiar description of the anatomy and physiology of the organ of vision : rules for the preservation, improvement, and restoration of sight : with remarks on near sight and aged sight, on optics, and the use and abuse of spectacles, with directions for their selection

99. The utility of the "Uterine supporter," as invented by Mrs. James Betts, of Philadelphia, in the cure of prolapsus uteri, &c &c: contained in various testimonials of eminent professors and practitioners, of Philadelphia, New York, Virginia, St. Louis, &c, and in lecture by William Harris, M.D., of Philadelphia ; also, a letter to a distinguished physician of Philadelphia