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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Subjects United States ✖Remove constraint Subjects: United States Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Publication Year 1800 to 1899 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1800">1800</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1899">1899</span>

1. Life insurance, its nature, origin and progress: a plain exposition of the principles of life insurance, manner of calculating tables of premium, sources of profit, etc. : containing, also, tables of mortality, annuities, expectation of life, compound interest and rates of premium, together with much other valuable information for parties connected with the business of life insurance as well as for policy holders

Author(s):
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company.
Publication:
New-York : John A. Gray, printer, 1858
Subject(s):
Insurance, Life
Insurance Coverage
United States

41. Medical sketches of the campaigns of 1812, 13, 14: to which are added, surgical cases : observations on military hospitals : and flying hospitals attached to a moving army : also, an appendix, comprising a dissertation on dysentery ... and observations on the winter epidemic of 1815-16, denominated peripneumonia notha : as it appeared at Sharon and Rochester, State of Massachusetts

Author(s):
Mann, James, 1759-1832
Publication:
Dedham [Mass.] : Printed by H. Mann and Co., 1816
Subject(s):
Military Hygiene
Military Medicine
Warfare
United States

79. A view of the soil and climate of the United States of America: with supplementary remarks upon Florida; on the French Colonies on the Mississippi and Ohio, and in Canada; and on the aboriginal tribes of America

Author(s):
Volney, C.-F. (Constantin-François), 1757-1820
Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by J. Conrad & Co. Philadelphia ; M & J Conrad & Co. Baltimore ; Pain, Conrad, & Co. Washington City ... [and 2 other cities], 1804
Subject(s):
Geological Phenomena
Climate
Disease
United States

87. In Senate of the United States, April 25, 1836, read, and ordered to be printed: Mr. Davis made the following report, with Senate bill No. 232 : the Committee on Commerce have considered the resolutions of Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana, and sundry petitions, praying for the erection of marine hospitals on the Western waters, and now report as follows

Author(s):
United States. Congress. Senate.
Publication:
[Washington? : Gales & Seator, print., 1836?]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Military
United States

97. Report on the pension systems, and invalid hospitals of France, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Italy: with some suggestions for the best means of disposing of our disabled soldiers

Author(s):
Perkins, Stephen H. (Stephen Higginson), 1804-1877
Publication:
New York : Wm. C. Bryant & Co., printers, 1863
Subject(s):
Military Personnel
Disabled Persons
Veterans
Pensions
Rehabilitation Centers
American Civil War
United States
Europe

100. Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend, in the hours of affliction, pain and sickness: this book points out, in plain language, free from doctors' terms, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states : it also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the southern and western country, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases : arranged on a new and simple plan, by which the practice of medicine is reduced to principles of common sense

Author(s):
Gunn, John C.
Publication:
Springfield, Ohio : John M. Gallagher, printer, 1835
Subject(s):
Medicine
Plants, Medicinal
United States