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2. The American herbal, or materia medica: wherein the virtues of the mineral, vegetable, and animal productions of North and South America are laid open, so far as they are known ; and their uses in the practice of physic and surgery exhibited ; comprehending an account of a large number of new medical discoveries and improvements, which are compiled from the best authorities

7. Directions for combining and using A. Stewart's compound vegetable and other pills: accompanied with correct tables, suitable for nearly all of the most commom complaints, whether simple or compound : taken from every day's observations and practice, of the numerous patients which I have had the honor to prescribe for, with unbounded success, both in Surgical and Medical cases

8. Domestic medicine or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

10. Domestic medicine, or, A treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines: with an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners

23. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

24. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is in their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

25. Domestic medicine, or, The family physician: being an attempt to render the medical art more generally useful, by shewing people what is their own power both with respect to the prevention and cure of diseases ; chiefly calculated to recommend a proper attention to regimen and simple medicines

27. Dr. R. Greene's indianopathy, or science of Indian medicine: founded upon the "laws of nature," the principles of which were obtained by Dr. Greene in his travels among the Indians, whereby he is enabled to successfully treat cancers, tumors, scrofula, ulcers, and all chronic diseases

29. Every man his own doctor, or, The poor planter's physician: prescribing, plain and easy means for persons to cure themselves of all, or most of the distempers, incident to this climate, and with very little charge, the medicines being chiefly of the growth and production of this country

30. Der Freund in der Noth, oder Zweyter Theil, des neuen auserlesenen gemeinnützigen Hand-Büchleins: darinnen allerhand Arten solcher nützliche Kenntnisse und Wissenschaften zu finden, die alle Gattungen von Menschen, wes Standes, Geschlechts und Alter er ist, nahe angehet, und beydes Nuzen [sic] und Vergnügen schaffen wird ; von welchen der Inhalt auf folgenden Seiten, und mehrere Nachricht in dem Vorbericht befindlich ist ; für die deutsche Nation in America

39. The long lost friend, or, Faithful & Christian instructions containing wonderous and well-tried arts & remedies, for man as well as animals: with many proofs of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases &c. the greater part of which was never published until they appeared in print for the first time in the U.S. in the year 1820

45. The North American Indian doctor, or, Nature's method of curing and preventing disease according to the Indians: containing a catechism of anatomy and physiology of between five and six hundred questions, with their correct answers, selected from the best authors in the world, for new beginners or those who wish to study the science of anatomy : also, a treatise on midwifery, with the treatment necessary during pregnancy : also, a materia medica of Indian remedies or vegetable compounds in the form of recipes for more than two hundred and fifty diseases, with a description of such plants as are not common

50. An oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia: containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America, and a comparitive view of their diseases and remedies, with those of civilized nations ; together with an appendix, containing, proofs and illustrations

56. A review of Dr. Max Bartel's work, "Die Medicin der Naturvœlker, ethnologische Beitræge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin", Leipzig, 1893: with a condensation of the subject matter on primitive minor and major surgery

57. Scatalogic rites of all nations: a dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe : based upon original notes and personal observation, and upon compilation from one thousand authorities