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1. An essay on the uterine haemorrhage, which precedes the delivery of the full grown foetus: illustrated with cases

Author(s):: Rigby, Edward, 1747-1821
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed for Thomas Dobson, in Second-Street, two doors above Chesnut-Street, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]
Subject(s):: Pregnancy Complications, Cardiovascular

2. An experimental dissertation on the chemical and medical properties of the Nicotiana tabacum of Linnaeus, commonly known by the name of tobacco

Author(s):: Brailsford, Edward, -1856
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by John Ormrod ..., 1799
Subject(s):: Tobacco -- adverse effects
Phytotherapy

3. Evidences of the efficacy of Doctor Perkins's patent metallic instruments

Author(s):: Perkins, Elisha, 1741-1799
Publication:: New-London [Conn.] : From S. Green's press, [1797]
Subject(s):: Equipment and Supplies

4. An enquiry into the nature, cause and cure, of the angina suffocativa, or, sore throat distemper, as it is commonly called by the inhabitants of this city and colony

Author(s):: Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821
Publication:: New-York, Printed by S. Inslee, and A. Car, MDCCLXXI [1771]
Subject(s):: Diphtheria
New York

5. An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794

Author(s):: Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed for Thomas Dobson, 1799
Subject(s):: Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
South Carolina -- epidemiology
West Indies -- epidemiology

6. An inaugural dissertation on camphor: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.S.T.P. provost ; the trustees & medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 12th of May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):: Church, John, 1774-1806
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by John Thompson, 1797
Subject(s):: Camphor -- therapeutic use

7. An inaugural dissertation on the bilious malignant fever: bead at a public examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, and the governors in the university at Cambridge, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 10, 1797

Author(s):: Brown, Samuel, 1768-1805
Publication:: [Boston] : Printed at Boston by Manning & Loring, 1797
Subject(s):: Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Boston -- epidemiology

8. A discourse, delivered before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, at the semiannual meeting, June 10, 1794

Author(s):: Barnard, Thomas, 1748-1814
Publication:: [Boston] : Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Joseph Belknap, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):: Charities
Resuscitation
Near Drowning
Massachusetts

9. Cases and observations

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

10. A view of ehe [sic] science of life: on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta

Author(s):: Yates, William, active 1797
Publication:: Whitehall [Pa.] : Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1797
Subject(s):: Medicine
Disease
Disease Outbreaks
Brown, John, 1735-1788.

11. A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery: with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases

Author(s):: Smellie, William, 1697-1763
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson ..., 1797
Subject(s):: Midwifery
Delivery, Obstetric
Parturition
Medical Illustration

12. The effect of the nitrous vapour, in preventing and destroying contagion: ascertained, from a variety of trials, made chiefly by surgeons of His Majesty's Navy, in prisons, hospitals, and on board of ships : with an introduction respecting the nature of the contagion, which gives rise to the jail or hospital fever ; and the various methods formerly employed to prevent or destroy this

Author(s):: Smyth, James Carmichael, 1741-1821
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Budd and Bartram, for Thomas Dobson, at the stone house, no 41, South Second Street, 1799
Subject(s):: Nitrous Acid -- therapeutic use
Disease Outbreaks
Typhus, Epidemic Louse-Borne -- prevention & control
Military Medicine

13. A compendium of practical and experimental farriery, originally suggested by reason and confirmed by practice: equally adapted for the convenience of the gentleman, the farmer, the groom, and the smith ; interspersed with such remarks, and elucidated with such cases, as evidently tend to insure the prevention, as well as to ascertain the cure of disease

Author(s):: Taplin, William, 1740?-1807
Publication:: Wilmington [Del.] : Printed by Bonsal & Niles, for Robert Campbell, bookseller, Philadelphia, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):: Animal Husbandry
Horse Diseases
Horses

14. A narrative, of a discovery of a sovereign specific, for the cure of cancers: with several other improvements lately made in medicine ; with a postscript, on a singular case of a stone taken out of the tongue

Author(s):: Martin, Hugh, active 1780
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Robert Aitken, MDCCLXXXII [1782]
Subject(s):: Neoplasms
Bone and Bones

15. God glorified in his works of providence and grace: a remarkable instance of it, in the various and signal deliverances, that evidently appear to be wrought for Mrs. Mercy Wheeler, of Plainfield ; who was restored from extreme impotence, and long confinement ; published at the desire of many

Author(s):: Lord, Benjamin, 1694-1784
Publication:: [Hartford] : Boston : printed in the year 1743 ; Hartford : re-printed by Elisha Babcock, 1798
Subject(s):: Religion and Medicine
Wheeler, Mercy, 1706-1796.

16. Longevity: being an account of various persons, who have lived to an extraordinary age, with several curious particulars respecting their lives ; the whole comprising an abridgement of longevity, as far as history extends in every quarter of the world, from the creation to the year 1792 ; authenticated by referential notes from authors of veracity

Author(s):: Hoffman, Christian.
Publication:: New-York : Printed and sold by Jacob S. Mott, no. 7. Vesey-Street, 1798
Subject(s):: Bible
Longevity

17. Transactions of the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia: volume I ; part I

Author(s):: College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, no. 41, So. Second-Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):: Medicine

18. Observations on the influence of the moon on climate, and the animal economy: with a proper method of treating diseases, when under the power of that luminary

Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 33, Carter's-Alley, MDCCXCVIII [1798]
Subject(s):: Moon
Disease
Meteorological Concepts

19. An account of a remarkable case of the tetanus

Author(s):: Clark, Thaddeus.
Publication:: Norwich [Conn.] : Printed by Thomas Hubbard, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):: Tetanus

20. Observations and experiments on the use of enemata, and the external application of medicines to the human body: being an inaugural thesis, submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the trustees, and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 22d day of May, 1798, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):: Hahn, John.
Publication:: Philadelphia : Printed by Stephen C. Ustick, 1798
Subject(s):: Enema