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1667Gods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. The latter in the year 1666
VINCENT, Thomas (1634 – 1678)
1672New-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1672New-Englands rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores; also A perfect description of an Indian squa, in all her bravery, with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her; lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passage in that country amongst the English.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1674An account of two voyages to New-England. Wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming: a description of the countrey [sic], natives, and creatures; with their merchantil [sic] and physical use; the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1677A brief rule to guide the common-people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.
THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)
THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)
1680Praxis catholica: or the countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing. Written by Robert Couch, sometime practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for public benefit) by Chr. Pack, operator in chymistry.
COUCH, Robert PACKE, Christopher (1657 – 1708)
1708The English physician.
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1720Pharmacopoeia Londinensis; or the London dispensatory…
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1721Some account of what is said of inoculating or transplanting the small pox by the learned Dr. Emmanuel Timonius, and Jacobus Pylarinus. With some remarks theron. To which are added, a few queries in answer to the scruples of many about the lawfulness of this method.
BOYLSTON, Zabdiel (1679 – 1766)
1721Some observations on the new method of receiving the smallpox by ingrafting or inoculating.
COLMAN, Benjamin (1673 – 1747)
COLMAN, Benjamin (1673 – 1747)
1722Inoculation of the smallpox as practised in Boston.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1722An account of the method and success of inoculating the small pox in Boston in New England.
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
1736The practical history of a new epidemical eruptive miliary fever, with an angina ulcusculosa, which prevailed in Boston New England in the years 1735 and 1736.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1751Observations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777) KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1753​–1761En Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1754Some account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from its first rise, to the beginning of the fifth month, called May 1754.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
1761Continuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790) RHOADS, Samuel (1711 – 1784)
1763Observations on some of the diseases of the parts of the human body. Chiefly taken from the dissections of morbid bodies.
CLOSSY, Samuel (1724 – 1786)
1765A discourse upon the institution of medical schools in America.…
MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
1769A 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.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1785Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…
MARSHALL, Humphrey (1722 – 1801)
1787A Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
1790Remarks on the diseases of the teeth.
GARDETTE, James (1756 – 1831)
1791Return of the whole number of persons with the several districts of the United States, according to "An Act Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
UNITED STATES
1797An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.
SEAMAN, Valentine (1770 – 1817)
1798Collections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1799Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First [All Published].
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1801A treatise on the human teeth, concisely explaining their structure and cause of disease and decay.
SKINNER, Richard Cortland ( – 1834)
1802Practical observations on vaccination: or inoculation for the cow pock.
COXE, John Redman (1773 – 1864)
1803Elements of botany, or outlines of the natural history of vegetables.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1807A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1811The maternal physician; a treatise on the nurture and management of infants, from the birth until two years old. Being the result of sixteen years' experience in the nursery. Illustrated by extracts from the most approved medical authors
TYLER, Mary Hunt Palmer (1775 – 1866)
1812Medical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1814Botanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
HENRY, Samuel
1816Medical 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.
MANN, James (1759 – 1832)
1822An account of the yellow fever which occurred in the city of New York, in the year 1822, to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure.To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season.
HARDIE, James (1758 – 1826)
1825The characteristics of homoeopathia. From Hahnemann's "Geist der Homöopathischen Heil-lehre."
GRAM, Hans Burch (1786 – 1840)
1826A treatise on the diseases of females.
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
1828American medical biography. 2 vols.
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
1832Observations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1845American medical biography…
WILLIAMS, Stephen West (1790 – 1855)
1845The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.
GRISCOM, John Hoskins (1809 – 1874)
1850An historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.
BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)
BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)
1856Glances and glimpses; or fifty years social, including twenty years professional life.
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
1872A history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
1907Hamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
1908A mind that found itself.
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
1911Hospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
1957Industrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967) HUMMEL, William W
1963Botanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766) RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989) HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)