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Start Over Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Genre Popular Works ✖Remove constraint Genre: Popular Works Dates by Range 1800-1849 ✖Remove constraint Dates by Range: 1800-1849 Publication Year 1806 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: 1806

3. Means of preserving health, and preventing diseases: founded principally on an attention to air and climate, drink, food, sleep, exercise, clothing, passions of the mind, and retentions and excretions : with an appendix, containing observations on bathing, cleanliness, ventilation, and medical electricity : and on the abuse of medicine ... : designed not merely for physicians, but for the information of others : to which is annexed, a glossary of the technical terms contained in the work

Author(s):
Ricketson, Shadrach, 1766-1839
Publication:
New-York : Printed by Collins, Perkins, and Co., sold by them, [and 10 others], 1806
Subject(s):
Medicine
Hygiene

5. The Works of Aristotle, the famous philosopher: In four parts. Containing I. His Complete master-piece; displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. To which is added, the Family physician; being approved remedies for the several distempers incident to the human body. II. His Experienced midwife; absolutely necessary for surgeons, midwives, nurses and child bearing women. III. His Book of problems, containing various questions and answers, relative to the state of man's body. IV. His Last legacy; unfolding the secrets of nature respecting the generation of man

Publication:
New England : Printed for the proprietor, January - 1806
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Congenital Abnormalities
Midwifery
Sexual Behavior

6. 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 many 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:
New-York : Published by Evert Duyckinck ; J. C. Totten, printer, 1806
Subject(s):
Religion and Medicine
Attitude to Death
Death
Christianity

9. The book of knowledge: treating of the wisdom of the ancients : in four parts : I. Shewing the various and wonderful operations of the signs and planets ... on the bodies of men, &c. II. Prognostications for ever necessary to keep the body in health; with several choice receipts in physic and surgery. III. An abstract of the art of physiognomy and palmestry ... IV. The farmer's calendar

Author(s):
Erra Pater.
Publication:
New-York : Published by Evert Duyckinck ..., 1806
Subject(s):
Hygiene
Astrology
Physiognomy

10. Plain discourses on the laws or properties of matter: containing the elements or principles of modern chemistry : with more particular details of those practical parts of the science most interesting to mankind, and connected with domestic affairs : addressed to all American promoters of useful knowledge

Author(s):
Ewell, Thomas, 1785-1826
Publication:
New York : Printed for Brisban & Brannan, ... Davis, printer, 1806
Subject(s):
Chemistry
Physiology