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5. An abridgment [sic] of the second edition of a work, written by Dr. Currie, of Liverpool in England: on the use of water, in diseases of the human frame ; and fever, opium, strong drink, abstinence from food, and the passages through the human skin ; with occasional remarks

Author(s):
Currie, James, 1756-1805
Publication:
[Augusta, Me.] : Printed by Peter Edes of Augusta, in the District of Maine ; sold by Mr. Edes of Augusta, and Mr. Bass of Hallowell, in Maine ; and by the booksellers of Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia, [1799]
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy

6. An abstract from the account of the Asylum, or, House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the county of Surry: instituted in the year 1758, for the reception of friendless and deserted orphan girls, the settlement of whose parents cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians, 1799
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

7. An abstract of the methods of curing diseases of the eyes, legs and breasts: and on the cure of cancerous, scrophulous and other chronic diseases, by mild internal remedies : to which are added, observations on the dangerous effects of altering the accustomed diet of patients and the ill effects of salt water, hemlock, &c

Author(s):
Rowley, William, 1742-1806
Publication:
London : Printed for F. Newbery ..., 1774
Subject(s):
Leg Ulcer -- therapy
Eye Diseases -- therapy
Chronic Disease -- therapy
Diet Therapy -- adverse effects

17. An account of the contagious epidemic yellow fever, which prevailed in Philadelphia in the summer and autumn of 1797: comprising the questions of its causes and domestic origin, characters, medical treatment, and preventives

Author(s):
Pascalis Ouviere, Felix, 1762-1833
Publication:
Philadelphia : From the press of Snowden & M'Corkle, no. 47, North Fourth-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

19. An account of the epidemic yellow fever, as it appeared in the city of New-York in the year 1795: containing, besides its history, &c., the most probable means of preventing its return, and of avoiding it, in case it should again become epidemic

Author(s):
Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817
Publication:
New-York : Printed by Hopkins, Webb & Co. no. 40, Pine-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
History, 18th Century
New York City

20. An account of the institution and proceedings of the Guardians of the Asylum or House of Refuge, situate in the parish of Lambeth, in the County of Surry: for the reception of orphan girls, whose settlements cannot be found

Author(s):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Publication:
[London] : Printed by order of the Guardians : at the Logographic Press, Blackfriars, 1786
Subject(s):
Orphanages -- organization & administration
Child, Orphaned
England
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)

21. An account of the malignant fever, lalely [sic] prevalent in the city of New-York

Author(s):
Hardie, James, 1758-1826
Publication:
New-York : Printed by Hurtin and M'Farlane, at the Literary Printing Office, no. 29 Gold-Street, and sold by the author, no. 1 Rider-Street ; by John Low, at the Shakespeare's Head, no. 332 Water-Street, the other booksellers, and the printers, 1799
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
New York City -- epidemiology

25. An account of the tenia or long tape worm: and of the method of treating it as practised at Morat in Switzerland : being a translation of a memoir published at Paris entitled "Traitementcontre le tenia ou ver solitaire, pratiquè a Morat en Suisse, examinè et eprouvè a Paris, publiè ordre du roi"

Author(s):
Lassone, Joseph-Marie-François de, 1717-1788, author
Mottet, M., author
Publication:
London : Printed for J. Wilkie, MDCCLXXVII [1777]
Subject(s):
Taeniasis -- therapy
Nouffer, Madame.

26. An act for establishing an health office, for securing the city and port of Philadelphia, from the introduction of pestilential and contagious diseases

Author(s):
Pennsylvania.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by Samuel F. Bradford] at the office of the "True American.", 1799
Subject(s):
Social Medicine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Quarantine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Public Health
Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control
Pennsylvania

31. The acts of Assembly of the province of Pennsylvania, carefully compared with the originals: and an appendix, containing such acts and parts of acts, relating to property, as are expired, altered or repealed ; together with the royal, proprietary, city and borough charters ; and the original concessions of the Honourable William Penn to the first settlers of the province

Author(s):
Pennsylvania.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Hall and Sellers, in Market-Street, between Front and Second-Streets, MDCCLXXV [1775]
Subject(s):
Ownership
Pennsylvania

38. Address, &c

Author(s):
Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
Publication:
[New York : s.n., 1796]
Subject(s):
Periodicals as Topic
Medicine

39. The adventures of Mrs. Tend----: being an impartial answer to a letter to her friend : in which are exhibited some remarks worthy the attention of the curious, her conduct with that of Tend----'s fairly laid open, the injured characters vindicated, and submitted to the public : also letters which passed between them, with some moral reflections

Author(s):
Gentleman, active 1768, author
Publication:
Dublin : Printed for S. Buck, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Subject(s):
Marriage
Divorce
Kingsman, Dorothea.
Tenducci, Giusto Ferdinando, approximately 1735-1790.

40. Advice to booksellers, perfumers, &c. not to sell any more stamps with their medicines, (patent ones excepted) nor the public to pay for them: founded on constitutional principles, with strictures on the Medicine Act, respectfully submitted to His Most Gracious Majesty, and both Houses of Parliament

Author(s):
Spilsbury, Francis.
Publication:
London : Sold by G. Wilkie ... ; and other booksellers, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]
Subject(s):
Legislation, Pharmacy
History, 18th Century
Nonprescription Drugs
Taxes -- legislation & jurisprudence
England

41. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

42. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

43. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
London [i.e., Boston] : Printed [by Mein and Fleeming], in the year MDCCLXVII [1767]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica
Health Promotion

44. Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health: but particularly calculated for those, who are the most unlikely to be provided in time with the best assistance, in acute diseases, or upon any sudden inward or outward accident ; with a table of the most cheap, yet effectual remedies, and the plainest directions for preparing them readily

Author(s):
Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed [by John Dunlap] for John Sparhawk, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Subject(s):
Medicine
Materia Medica

45. The afflicted man's companion, or A directory for persons and families, afflicted with sickness or any other distress: with directions to the sick, both under and after affliction ; also, directions to the friends of the sick, and others who visit them ; and likewise to all, how to prepare both for sickness and death ; and how to be exercised at the time of dying ; to which is added, a collection of comfortable texts of Scripture, very suitable for dying believers ; the choice sayings of eminent dying saints ; the author's last advice to his wife and children : and his dying words, written by himself, and found among his papers after his death

Author(s):
Willison, John, 1680-1750
Publication:
Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Joseph Johnson, 1796
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Attitude to Death
Death
Christianity

46. Alexipharmaco de la salud, antidoto de la enfermedad, favorable dietetico instrumento de la vida: dissertacion medico-moral, que trata del ayuno, y accidentes, que escusan de él, y que hacen licito el uso de las carnes a los enfermos y valetudinarios : en un copioso cathalogo

Author(s):
Malpica Diosdado, José Francisco de.
Publication:
[Mexico] : Impresso con las licencias necessarias en Mexico : en el Colegio Real, y mas antiguo de S. Ildefonso, año de 1751
Subject(s):
Diet
Medicine

47. The American instructor, or, Young man's best companion: containing, spelling, reading, writing and arithmetic, in an easier way than any yet published ; and how to qualify any person for business, without the help of a master ; instructions to write variety of hands ... ; how to write letters on business or friendship ; forms of indentures ... releases, &c. ; also merchant's accompts, and a short and easy method of shop and book-keeping ; with a description of the several American colonies ; together with the carpenter's plain and exact rule ... ; likewise the practical gauger made easy ... ; to which is added, The poor planter's physician ... and also prudent advice to young tradesmen and dealers ; the whole better adpated to these American colonies, than any other book of the like kind

Author(s):
Fisher, George, accomptant
Publication:
New-York : Printed and sold by H. Gaine, at the Bible and Crown, in Hanover-Square, MDCCLXX [1770]
Subject(s):
Mathematics
Accounting
Commerce

48. The American oracle: comprehending an account of recent discoveries in the arts and sciences, with a variety of religious, political, physical, and philosophical subjects, necessary to be known in all families, for the promotion of their present felicity and future happiness

Author(s):
Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809
Publication:
New-York : Printed for, and sold by Hodge and Campbell, Berry and Rogers, and T. Allen., MDCCXCI [1791]
Subject(s):
History
Natural History
Medicine
Science
United States

51. Anatomical tables of the human body

Author(s):
Cheselden, William, 1688-1752
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Manning and Loring, for David West, 1796
Subject(s):
Anatomy

53. The anatomy of the human body

Author(s):
Cheselden, William, 1688-1752
Publication:
Boston, Printed by Manning & Loring, for J. White [and 8 others], 1795
Subject(s):
Anatomy

60. 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

61. Aristotle's book of problems: with other astronomers, astrologers, physicians, and philosophers : wherein is contained divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body : together with the reasons of divers wonders in the creation : the generations of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, and many other problems on the most weighty matters, by way of question and answer

Publication:
London : Printed for J. W. J. K. D. M. A. B. E. R. M. R. T. L. B. M. and A. W., [176-?]
Subject(s):
Physiological Phenomena

62. Aristotle's master piece completed: in two parts ; the first, containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; the second part ; A private looking-glass for the female sex, treating of the various maladies of the womb, and all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each ; the whole being more correct than any thing of the kind hitherto published

Publication:
New-York : Printed for the United Company of Flying Stationers, MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

63. Aristotle's master-piece compleated: in two parts : the first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof : treating of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches, signs of insufficiency in men or women ... : the second part being A private looking-glass for the female sex

Publication:
Glasgow : [publisher not identified], MDCCLXXVI [1776]
Subject(s):
Midwifery
Sex Education
Congenital Abnormalities

64. Aristotle's master-piece completed: in two parts ; the first containing the secrets of generation in all the parts thereof ... ; the second part being A private looking-glass for the female sex ; treating of the various maladies of the womb, and all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each ; the whole being more correct than any thing of this kind hitherto published

Publication:
New-York : Printed for the Company of Flying Stationers, 1793
Subject(s):
Sexual Behavior
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Reproduction

67. The art of cookery: containing above six hundred and fifty of the most approv'd receipts heretofore published, under the following heads, viz. : roasting, boiling, frying, broiling, baking, fricasees, puddings, custards, cakes, cheese-cakes, tarts, pyes, soops, made-wines, jellies, candying, pickling, preserving, pastry, collering, confectionary, creams, ragoos, brasing, &c. &c., also a bill of fare for every month in the year : with an alphabetical index to the whole : being a book highly necessary for all families, having the grounds of cookery fully display'd therein

Author(s):
Thacker, John, cook
Publication:
Newcastle upon Tyne : Printed by I. Thompson and Company, 1758
Subject(s):
Cooking

68. The art of preserving health: a poem

Author(s):
Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Publication:
[Boston] : London : printed ; Boston ; New-England, re-printed and sold by Green & Russell, MDCCLVII [1757]
Subject(s):
Health Promotion

70. An astronomical diary, kalendar, or almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1793: adapted to the horizon and meridian of New-Haven, lat. 41 deg. 19 min. north, and longit. 73 deg. 14 min. westward of the Royal Observatory, or Flamsted-House in Greenwich, according to the latest observations : but (without sensible error) may serve indifferently for all the towns in Connecticut, and the adjacent states

Author(s):
Strong, Nehemiah, 1729-1807
Publication:
New-Haven : Printed and sold by T. & S. Green, [1792]
Subject(s):
Forecasting
Astrology
Breast Feeding
Connecticut

73. At the General Assembly of the governor and Company of the colony of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America, begun and holden by adjournment at Newport, within and for the said colony, on the second Monday in June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six

Author(s):
Rhode Island. General Assembly
Publication:
Providence : Printed by John Carter, [1776]
Subject(s):
Smallpox -- prevention & control
Legislation, Medical
Rhode Island

82. A brief account of the epidemical fever which lately prevailed in the city of New York: with the different proclamations, reports and letters of Gov. Jay, Gov. Mifflin, the Health Committee of New York, &c. upon the subject : to which is added, an accurate list of the names of those who have died of the disease, from July 29, to Nov. 1

Author(s):
Davis, Matthew L. (Matthew Livingston), 1773-1850
Publication:
New York : Printed and sold by Matthew L. Davis, no. 151 Water street, 1795
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
New York City

86. A brief history of the late expedition against Fort San Juan, so far as it relates to the diseases of the troops: together with some observations on climate, infection and contagion; and several of the endemial complaints of the West-Indies

Author(s):
Dancer, Thomas.
Publication:
Kingston [Jamaica] : Printed by D. Douglass & W. Aikman ; and sold by them at the Royal Gazette Printing-Office, and at Wm. Aikman's shop in Kingston ; by Alexander Aikman, in Spanish-Town ; and by James Fannin, printer in Montego-Bay, 1781
Subject(s):
Military Medicine
Disease Outbreaks
Climate
West Indies -- epidemiology

87. Candid invitations to serious and unbiased reflections, concerning the great and dreadful increase, malignancy and direfull effects of fevers, and other epidemick diseases: which yearly destroy great numbers of all ranks and degrees, age and sex : with important inquiries, remarks and observations on the causes therof : to which is added : reasons and motives to demonstrate the necessity of putting an immediate stop to their growing progress ... : recommended to the serious and unbiased consideration of all who may think the means for preserving life and health

Author(s):
White, R., active 1763-1777
Publication:
London : [s.n.], MDCCLXIII [1763]
Subject(s):
Epidemics -- prevention & control
Disease -- etiology
United Kingdom

89. Carta familiar de un sacerdote, respuesta a un colegial amigo suyo: en que le dà cuenta de la admirable conquista espiritual del vasto imperio del gran Thibèt, y la mission que los padres Capuchinos tienen alli, con sus singulares progressos hasta el present : dase tambien una noticia succinta de la fundacion de esta Penitente Seraphica Familia ; de los santos que la ilustran, Cardenales, Arzobispos ; de su observancia, y austeridad, missiones que tiene en todo orbe, provincias, conventos, y religiosos en que se halla propagada, con orras noticias historico-eclesiasticas

Author(s):
Francisco, de Ajofrín, fray, 1719-1789
Publication:
Impresa en Mexico : En la imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana ..., año de 1765
Subject(s):
Religious Missions -- history
Tibet
Capuchins.

91. The case of the manufacturers of soap & candles in the city of New-York, stated and examined: to which are prefixed, the laws of the state of New-York, concerning infectious diseases ; with an addition, in form of an appendix ; containing, several documents and papers, relative to these subjects

Author(s):
Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
Publication:
New-York : Printed by John Buel, for the association, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Communicable Disease Control -- legislation & jurisprudence
Disease Outbreaks -- legislation & jurisprudence
Textile Industry -- legislation & jurisprudence
Communicable Diseases
Soaps
Fats
New York -- epidemiology

92. Cases and observations

Author(s):
Medical Society of New-Haven County.
Publication:
New-Haven : Printed by J. Meigs, 1788
Subject(s):
Medicine

97. A catalogue of the books belonging to the medical library in the Pennsylvania Hospital: to which are prefixed, the rules to be observed in the use of them

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.). Medical Library.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Zachariah Poulson, Junior, on the west side of Fourth-Street, between Market-Street and Arch-Street, MDCCXC [i.e. 1794]
Subject(s):
Libraries, Hospital -- organization & administration
Medicine
Philadelphia

98. The catechism of health

Author(s):
Faust, Bernhard Christoph, 1755-1842
Publication:
New York : Printed by R. Wilson, for Samuel Campbell, 124, Pearl-Street, 1798
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Health

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