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402. 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

410. Studies of nature (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814
Publication:
Worcester [Mass.] : Printed for J. Nancrede, Marlborough Street, Boston, 1797
Subject(s):
Nature

411. Studies of nature (Volume 3)

Author(s):
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814
Publication:
Worcester [Mass.] : Printed for J. Nancrede, Marlborough Street, Boston, 1797
Subject(s):
Nature

416. A treatise of the materia medica (Volume 2)

Author(s):
Cullen, William, 1710-1790
Publication:
[United States] : Edinburgh : printed ; re-printed for, and sold by, J. Crukshank and R. Campbell, Philadelphia, R. Hodge, S. Campbell, and T. Allen, New-York, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica

420. A treatise of the materia medica (Volume 1)

Author(s):
Cullen, William, 1710-1790
Publication:
[United States] : Edinburgh : printed ; re-printed for, and sold by, J. Crukshank and R. Campbell, Philadelphia, R. Hodge, S. Campbell, and T. Allen, New-York, MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Subject(s):
Materia Medica

429. An inaugural dissertation on the compression of the brain from concussion: submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York : William Samuel Johnson, LL.D. president ; for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the thirtieth day of April, 1793

Author(s):
Hicks, John B. (John Bowne)
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 27, William-Street, 1793
Subject(s):
Brain Concussion

436. Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery

Author(s):
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802
Publication:
Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts : By Isaiah Thomas ; sold at his bookstore in Worcester ; sold also by said Thomas, and Andrews, no. 45, Newbury Street, Boston ; and by said Thomas, and Carlilse [sic], Walpole, in Newhampshire, 1794
Subject(s):
Midwifery

437. A short account of the malignant fever, lately prevalent in Philadelphia: with a statement of the proceedings that took place on the subject in different parts of the United States ; to which are added, accounts of the plague in London and Marseilles ; and a list of the dead, from August 1, to the middle of December, 1793

Author(s):
Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by the author, January 16, 1794
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Plague -- history
History, 17th Century
Mortality
Philadelphia -- epidemiology
London -- epidemiology
France -- epidemiology

438. Elements of physiology

Author(s):
Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, 1752-1840
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas Dobson, MDCCXCV [1795]
Subject(s):
Physiology

440. General Wolfe's instructions to young officers: also his orders for a battalion and an army ; together with the orders and signals used in embarking and debarking an army, by flat-bottom'd boats, &c. and a placart to the Canadians ; to which are prefixed, the duty of an adjutant, and quarter-master, &c

Author(s):
Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXVIII [1778]
Subject(s):
Military Personnel

445. Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery

Author(s):
Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802
Publication:
Printed at Northampton [Mass.] : By Wm. Butler, for Thomas & Andrews ; sold by them at their bookstore in Boston ; by Thomas, Andrews & Penniman, Albany ; and by Thomas, Andrews & Butler, Baltimore, October, 1797
Subject(s):
Midwifery

447. A serious address, on the dangerous consequences of neglecting common coughs and colds, with ample directions for the prevention and cure of consumptions: to which are added, observations on the hooping cough and asthma

Author(s):
Hayes, Thomas, active 1783-1786
Publication:
[Boston] : From the press of Samuel Etheridge, no. 9, Newbury-Street ; for John West, no. 75, and Caleb Bingham, no. 4, Cornhill, Boston, 1796
Subject(s):
Common Cold
Asthma
Tuberculosis -- prevention & control
Whooping Cough

450. Of the cholera

Author(s):
Currie, William, 1754-1828
Publication:
[Philadelphia, Printed for the author by William T. Palmer, 1798]
Subject(s):
Cholera

457. Medical inquiries and observations

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, at the stone-house, no. 41, South Second-Street, MDCCXCIII [1793]
Subject(s):
Medicine

469. Per hoc publicum instrumentum cunctis pateat, & sit notum quod à Navitate Domini millesimo septingentesimo [blank]: in Secretarij Academici, aliorumque testium praesentia, personalitèr constitutus Baccalaureus D. [blank] postquam secundum statuta hujus Regiae, ac Pontificiae Mexicanae Universitatis rigorose examinatus ... ; gradum Baccalaureatus in Medica Facultate recepit à Doctore [blank] ... ; et ego infrascriptus Regiae, ac Pontificiae Mexicanae Universitatis [blank] secretarius ... meo nomine & signo solitis subscripsi, & signavi, die [blank]

Author(s):
Real y Pontificia Universidad de México.
Publication:
[Mexico : s.n., 1772?]
Subject(s):
Education, Medical
Anniversaries and Special Events
Mexico

474. To the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: the memorial of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, respectfully sheweth, that, in the beginning of the year 1751, a plan was presented to the Assembly, for a public hospital, for the benevolent purpose of receiving and accommodating the lunatics and sick poor of Pennsylvania

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1797]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Public -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

476. Dissertatio physica inauguralis, De coctione ciborum in ventriculo: quam, annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson, S.S.T.P. academiae Edinburgenae praefecti ; nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu, et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto ; pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis

Author(s):
Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
Publication:
Edinburgi : Apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie, academiae typographos, MDCCLXVIII [1768]
Subject(s):
Digestion

485. Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens observationes ad chirurgiae operationes pertinentes: apud interrogationem publicam prolocutas et sustentatas die Julii III, habitam, quam annuente summo numine ex auctoritate Reverendi Josephi Willard, praesidis, &c. Honoratorum et reverendorum curatorum et etiam senatus academici consensu, nec non institutionis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoratus

Author(s):
Fleet, John, 1766-1813
Publication:
Bostoniae : Typis Thomae Fleet, jun, MDCCXCV [1795]
Subject(s):
Surgical Procedures, Operative

486. Lecciones matematicas

Author(s):
Bartolache, José Ignacio, 1739-1790
Publication:
[Mexico] : En la imprenta de La Bibliotéca Mexicána ..., 1769
Subject(s):
Mathematics

487. 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, 1719-1789
Publication:
Impresa en Mexico : En la imprenta de la Bibliotheca Mexicana ..., año de 1765
Subject(s):
Religious Missions -- history
Tibet
Capuchins.

488. 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
Health Promotion
Materia Medica

489. An inaugural experimental dissertation, being an endeavor to ascertain the morbid effects of carbonic acid gas, or fixed air, on healthy animals, and the manner in which they are produced: which, under the direction of the Rev. John Ewing, D.D. provost of the University of Pennsylvania, by the authority of the Board of Trustees, and with the approbation of the faculty, is submitted to the candid examination of the learned. 19th day of May, 1794 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Bache, William, 1773-1818
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, MDCCXCIV [1794]
Subject(s):
Carbon Dioxide -- physiology
Respiration

490. A discourse upon the duties of a physician: with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital : delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769 : as advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university

Author(s):
Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821
Publication:
New-York : Printed by A. & J. Robertson, 1769
Subject(s):
Ethics, Medical
Education, Medical
Hospitals, Public
United States

491. An inaugural dissertation on the effects of contagion upon the human body: being an attempt to ascertain its mode of operation, with a few observations on the proper method of preventing and curing febrile contagious diseases ; submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost, the medical professors and trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine, on the 19th day of May 1794

Author(s):
Condict, Lewis, 1773-1862
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by William W. Woodward, 1794
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks

495. 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