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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)
1722The abuses and scandals of some late pamphlets in favour of inoculation of the small-pox.
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)
1734Every 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.
TENNENT, John (1700 – 1760)
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)
1751Descriptions, virtues, and uses of sundry plants of these northern parts of America, and particularly of the newly discovered Indian cure for the venereal disease.
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
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)
1754The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants, particulary the forest trees, shrubs, and other plants, not hitherto described, or very incorrectly figured by authors. Together with their descriptions in English and French. To which are added, observations on the air, soil, and waters with remarks upon agriculture, grain, pulse, roots, &c. To the whole is prefixed a new and correct map of the countries treated of / by the late Mark Catesby; revised by Mr. [George] Edwards. 2 vols.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
EDWARDS, George (1693 – 1773)
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)
1767Hortus Europae americanus, or, A collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs: the produce of North America, adapted to the climates and soils of Great-Britain, Ireland, and most parts of Europe, &c together with their blossoms, fruits and seeds, observations on their culture, growth, constitution and virtues, with directions how to collect, pack up and secure them in their passage.
CATESBY, Mark (1683 – 1749)
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)
1770Syllabus of a course of lectures on chemistry.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1776An account of the weather and diseases of South-Carolina. 2 vols.
CHALMERS, Lionel (1715 – 1777)
1784​–1787Arctic zoology. 3 vols.
PENNANT, Thomas (1726 – 1798)
PENNANT, Thomas (1726 – 1798)
1785Arbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…
MARSHALL, Humphrey (1722 – 1801)
1787Materia medica Americana, potissimum regni vegetabilis.
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
SCHOEPFF, Johann David (1752 – 1800)
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)
1790Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America settentrionale fatto negli anni 1785, 1786, e 1787. 2 vols.
CASTIGLIONI, Luigi (1757 – 1832)
1791Travels through North & South Carolina, George, East & West Florida, the Cherokee country, the extensive territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek confederacy, and the country of the Chactaws [sic]...
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
BARTRAM, William (1739 – 1823)
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
1792An historical account of the climates and diseases of the United States of America, and of the remedies and methods of treatment, which have been found most useful and efficacious, particularly in those diseases which depend upon climate and situation: collected pricipally from personal observation, and the communications of physicians of talents and experience, residing in the several states.
CURRIE, William (1754 – 1828)
1797An inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.
SEAMAN, Valentine (1770 – 1817)
1797The natural history of the rarer lepidopterous insects of Georgia. Including their systematic characters, the particulars of their several metamorphoses, and the plants on which they feed. Collected from the observations of Mr. John Abbot, many years resident in that country, by James Edward Smith.
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
ABBOT, John (1751 – 1840)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
SMITH, Sir James Edward (1759 – 1828)
1798The influence of metallic tractors on the human body, in removing various painful inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatism, pleurisy, some gouty affections, &c. &c: Lately discovered by Dr. Perkins, of North America; and demonstrated in a series of experiments and observations....by which the importance of the discovery is fully ascertained, and a new field of enquiry opened in the modern science of Galvanism, or animal electricity
PERKINS, Benjamin Douglas (1774 – 1810)
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)
1801The American herbal, or materia medica.
STEARNS, Samuel (1741 – 1810)
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)
1803An epistle to a friend, on the means of preserving health, promoting happiness; and prolonging the life of man to its natural period. Being a summary view of inconsiderate and useless habits that derange the system of nature, thereby causing premature old age and death : with some thoughts on the best means of preventing and overcoming disease.
PEALE, Charles Willson (1741 – 1827)
PEALE, Charles Willson (1741 – 1827)
1803Flora Boreali-Americana, sistens caracteres plantarum quas in America septentrionali collegit et detexit Andreas Michaux, Instituti Gallici Scientiarum, necnon Societatis Agriculturae Caroliniensis socius. Tabulis Aeneis 51 ornata [after Pierre-Joseph Redouté]. 2 vols.
MICHAUX, André (1746 – 1802)
MICHAUX, André (1746 – 1802) REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph (1759 – 1840)
1804A case of fracture of the os humeri, in which the broken ends of the bone not uniting the usual manner, a cure was effected by means of a seton.
PHYSICK, Philip Syng (1768 – 1837)
PHYSICK, Philip Syng (1768 – 1837)
1807A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1807The planter's and mariner's medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. To which are subjoined a dispensatory, shewing how to prepare and administer family medicines, and a glossary giving an explanation of technical terms.
EWELL, James (1773 – 1832)