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1808​–1814American ornithology; or, the natural history of the birds of the United States: Illustrated with plates engraved and colored from original drawings taken from nature. 9 vols.
WILSON, Alexander (1766 – 1813)
WILSON, Alexander (1766 – 1813)
ORD, George
ORD, George
1809Cases of organic diseases of the heart. With dissections and some remarks intended to point out the distinctive symptoms of these diseases.
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)
WARREN, John Collins (1778 – 1856)
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)
1814Flora Americae septentrionalis; or, a systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America. Containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. 2 vols.
PURSH, Frederick Traugott (1774 – 1820)
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)
1817​–1819Vegetable materia medica of the United States. 2 vols.
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
BARTON, William Paul Crillon (1786 – 1856)
1817​–1820American medical botany, being a collection of the native medicinal plants of the United States, containing their botanical history and chemical analysis, and properties and uses in medicine, diet and the arts. 3 vols.
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1818The genera of North American plants, and a catalogue of the species to the year 1817. 2 vols.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1819A statement of the occurrences during a malignant yellow fever in the city of New-York, in the summer and autumnal months of 1819; and of the check given to its progress, by the measures adopted by the Board of Health. With a list of cases and names of sick persons, and a map of their places of residence within the infected and proscribed limits: With a view of ascertaining, by comparative arguments, whether the distemper was engendered by domestic causes, or communicated by human contagion from foreign ports.
PASCALIS OUVIERE, Felix (1762 – 1833)
1820Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. 1820
SPALDING, Lyman (1775 – 1821)
1820Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1821A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
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)
1822A treatise on the materia medica, intended as a sequel to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States: Being an account of the origin, qualities and medical uses of the articles and compounds, which constitute that work, with their modes of prescription and administration.
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
BIGELOW, Jacob (1786 – 1879)
1823A military journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775-1783…
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
1823Manners and customs of several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi; including some account of the soil, climate, and vegetable productions, and the Indian materia medica: to which is prefixed the history of the author's life during a residence of several years among them.
HUNTER, John Dunn (1788 – 1827)
1824​–1828American entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America. Illustrated by coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature. 3 vols.
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
1825Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1816, 1820, and 1824.
WATERTON, Charles (1782 – 1865)
WATERTON, Charles (1782 – 1865)
1825The characteristics of homoeopathia. From Hahnemann's "Geist der Homöopathischen Heil-lehre."
GRAM, Hans Burch (1786 – 1840)
1825​–1828American ornithology; or, the natural history of birds inhabiting the United States, not given by Wilson. 4 vols.
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, 2nd Prince of Canino (1803 – 1857)
BONAPARTE, Charles Lucien Jules Laurent, 2nd Prince of Canino (1803 – 1857)
1825Medical facts and inquiries, respecting the causes, nature, prevention and cure of fever: more expressly in relation to the endemic fevers of summer and autumn in the southern states: Together with a history of the bilious remitting fever of Alabama, as it appeared in Cahawba and its vicinity in the summers and autumns of 1821 and 1822.
HEUSTIS, Jabez Wiggins (1784 – 1841)
1826A treatise on the diseases of females.
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
1826A compendium of the flora of the northern and middle states, containing generic and specific descriptions of all the plants, exclusive of the cryptogamia, hitherto found in the United States, north of the Potomac.
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
TORREY, John (1796 – 1873)
1826Observations on the May-Bug, and its ravages on plum and other trees, and also on the means of preventing the mischief.
GRIFFITH, Mary (1772 – 1846)
1827Successful amputation at the hip-joint.
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
MOTT, Valentine (1785 – 1865)
1828​–1830Medical flora; or, manual of the medical botany of the United States of North America. Containing a selection of above 100 figures and descriptions of medical plants, with their names, qualities, properties, history &c; and notes or remarks on nearly 500 equivalent substitutes. 2 vols.
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
RAFINESQUE, Constantine Samuel (1783 – 1840)
1828American medical biography. 2 vols.
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
1829​–1837Histoire général et iconographie des lepidoptérès et des chenilles de l’Amerique septentrionale.
BOISDUVAL, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de (1799 – 1879)
BOISDUVAL, Jean Baptiste Alphonse Déchauffour de (1799 – 1879)
LE CONTE, John Eatton Jr. (1784 – 1860)
LE CONTE, John Eatton Jr. (1784 – 1860)
1830Gunn’s domestic medicine, or poor man’s friend in the hours of affliction, pain, and sickness. This book points out, in plain language, free from doctor's terms the diseases of men, women, and children, and the latest and most approved means used in their cure, and is expressly written for the benefit of families in the western and southern states. It also contains descriptions of the medicinal roots and herbs of the western and southern country, 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 reduced to the principles of common sense.
GUNN, John C.
1830​–1836American conchology, or descriptions of the shells of North America illustrated from coloured figures from original drawings executed from nature. 7 parts. Parts 1–6: New Harmony, 1830–1834; Part 7: Philadelphia, 1836.
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
SAY, Thomas (1787 – 1834)
1832​–1834A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada. Vol. 1: The land birds. Vol. 2: The water birds.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
1832Practical essays on medical education, and the medical profession, in the United States.
DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852)
DRAKE, Daniel (1785 – 1852)
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)
1833The dispensatory of the United States of America.
BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864)
BACHE, Franklin (1792 – 1864)
WOOD, George Bacon (1797 – 1879)
WOOD, George Bacon (1797 – 1879)
1836​–1840North American herpetology; or, a description of the reptiles inhabiting the United States. 4 vols.
HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
HOLBROOK, John Edwards (1794 – 1871)
1836​–1837On the influence of trades, professions, and occupations, in the United States in the production of disease.
MCCREADY, Benjamin William (1813 – 1892)
1836Discoveries in light and vision; with a short memoir containing discoveries in the mental faculties.
GRIFFITH, Mary (1772 – 1846)
1837The medical student; or, aids to the study of medicine. Including a glossary of the terms of the science, and of the mode of prescribing,--bibliographical notices of medical works; the regulations of different medical colleges of the union, &c. &c.
DUNGLISON, Robley (1798 – 1869)
DUNGLISON, Robley (1798 – 1869)
1837The family nurse; or companion of the frugal housewife. Revised by a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society.
CHILD, Lydia Maria Francis (1802 – 1880)
CHILD, Lydia Maria Francis (1802 – 1880)
1839Crania Americana; or, A comparative view of the skulls of various aboriginal nations of North and South America. To which is prefixed an essay on the varieties of the human species.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
1840​–1856Statistical report on the sickness and mortality in the Army of the United States. Vol. 1 (1819-1839), Vol. 2 (1839-1855), Vol. 3 (1855-1860).
LAWSON, Thomas (1789 – 1861)
LAWSON, Thomas (1789 – 1861) COOLIDGE, Richard Henry (1816 – 1866)
1840Catalogue of skulls of man, and the inferior animals, in the collection of Samuel George Morton.
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
MORTON, Samuel George (1799 – 1851)
1841​–1849The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada, and Nova Scotia, considered particularly with respect to their use in the arts, and their introduction into commerce; to which is added a description of the most useful of the European trees. Illustrated by 156 coloured engravings. Translated from the French of F. Andrew Michaux ... With three additional volumes, containing all the forest trees discovered in the Rocky Mountains, the Territory of Oregon, down to the shores of the Pacific and into the confines of California, as well as in various parts of the United States. Illustrated by 122 finely coloured plates. 6 vols.
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859)
NUTTALL, Thomas (1786 – 1859) MICHAUX, François André (1770 – 1855)
1841Notes on the United States of North America during a phrenological visit in 1838-9-40. 3 vols.
COMBE, George (1788 – 1858)
COMBE, George (1788 – 1858)
1842The history, diagnosis, and treatment of typhoid and of typhus fever: With an essay on the diagnosis of bilious remittent and of yellow fever.
BARTLETT, Elisha (1804 – 1855)
BARTLETT, Elisha (1804 – 1855)
1845American medical biography…
WILLIAMS, Stephen West (1790 – 1855)
1845​–1854The viviparous quadrupeds of North America. 2 vols. of plates in folio; 3 vols. 8vo text.
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
AUDUBON, John James Laforest (1785 – 1851)
BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
BACHMAN, John (1790 – 1874)
1845The sanitary condition of the laboring population of New York with suggestions for its improvement.
GRISCOM, John Hoskins (1809 – 1874)