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1. A treatise on domestic medicine: pointing out, in plain language, and as free from professional terms as possible, the nature, symptoms, causes, probable terminations, and treatment of all diseases incident to men, women, and children, in both cold and warm climates : as also, appropriate prescriptions in English, and the doses of medicine which are suitable to different ages : including likewise effectual means for preventing the extension of all infectious diseases, and annihilating the power of every kind of contagion, and rules for enabling Europeans who visit a warm climate to escape the yellow fever, and long enjoy a good state of health

Author(s):
Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835
Publication:
New York : Collins, 1822
Subject(s):
Medicine

7. Tea and coffee

Author(s):
Alcott, William A. (William Andrus), 1798-1859
Publication:
Boston : G.W. Light, 1839
Subject(s):
Tea
Coffee

27. A short practical narrative of the diseases which prevailed among the American seamen, at Wampoa in China: in the year 1805 : with some account of diseases which appeared among the crew of the ship New-Jersey, on the passage from thence, to Philadelphia : submitted as an inaugural dissertation, to the examination of the Rev. J. Andrews ..., the Trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the tenth day of April, 1807 : for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas T. Stiles ..., 1807
Subject(s):
Disease Outbreaks
Naval Medicine
China
Philadelphia

46. Report of the Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts: read before the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, November 1849, and ordered to be published

Author(s):
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons. Committee on the Comparative Health, Mortality, Length of Sentences, &c., of White and Colored Convicts.
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1849?]
Subject(s):
Mortality
Health Status Disparities
Prisoners
Pennsylvania

47. Family medical adviser: giving such information on the practice of physic and the diseases of women and children as may prove useful in families when regular physicians cannot readily be procured : selected, arranged, and compiled from the best medical authors, together with his own observations in the treatment of diseases, generally : to which is annexed anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and many valuable prescriptions, being a useful guide for intelligent heads of families, overseers of plantations and manufactories, masters of vessels, and travelers

Author(s):
Boyd, J.
Publication:
Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1845
Subject(s):
Medicine

56. Institution for the cure of consumption in its middle or incipient stage, scrofula in all its various forms, cancerous tumors in their incipient stage, cutaneous diseases, liver complaints, rheumatism, gout, asthma, debility, and all disorders arising from derangment of the digestive organs: by means of American vegetable remedies, a suitable plan of diet and regimen, and Whitlaw's patent medicated vapor baths

Author(s):
Whitlaw, Charles.
Publication:
New York : Press of H.R. Piercy, 1834
Subject(s):
Hydrotherapy
Phytotherapy
Steam

58. The practical proofs of the soundness of the Hygeian system of physiology: selected from the appendix of "Morisoniana", as incontrovertible testimonies to the afflicted, of the inestimable value of Morison's vegetable universal medicine : including, with other important matter, "The origin of life, and cause of all disease explained", and an entirely new view of the origin of the small pox virus, and of its being most certainly eradicable, or rendered harmless

Publication:
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Moat, 1831
Subject(s):
Nostrums
Cholera

63. Aristotle's master-piece, completed: In two parts. The first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating of the benefit of marriage, and the prejudice of unequal matches. Signs of insufficiency in men or women. Of the infusion of the soul. Of the likeness of children to parents. Of monstrous births. The cause and cure of the green sickness. A discourse of virginity. Directions and cautions for midwives. Of the organs of generation in women, and the fabric of the womb. The use and action of the genitals. Signs of conception, and whether a male or female, with a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation. And the pictures of several monstrous births, &c. The second part being A private looking glass for the female sex. Treating of various maladies of the womb, and of all other distempers incident to women of all ages, with proper remedies for the cure of each. : The whole being more correct than any thing of the kind hitherto published

Publication:
New-York : Printed for the Company of the Flying Stationer, 1817
Subject(s):
Reproduction
Obstetrics

86. Account of the rise and progress of the asylum, proposed to be established, near Philadelphia: for the relief of persons deprived of the use of their reason : with an abridged account of the Retreat, a similar institution near York, in England

Publication:
Philadelphia : Published by Kimber and Conrad ..., 1814
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Hospitals, Religious
Fund Raising
Hospital Design and Construction
Institutionalization -- methods
Protestantism
England
Philadelphia
Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason.
York Retreat.

100. Gunn's domestic medicine, or, Poor man's friend: describing, in plain language, the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, designed especially for the use of families : it also contains descriptions of the medical roots and herbs of the United States, 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:
Pittsburgh, Pa. : Edwards & Newman, 1839
Subject(s):
Medicine