1780–1789
157 entries with publication dates in this decade.
1789
#10348
Observations on the duties of a physician, and the methods of improving medicine. Accommodated to the present state of society and manners in the United States. Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, February 7, 1789, at the conclusion of a course of lectures upon chemistry and the practice of physic.
Full text available from quod.lib.umich.edu at this link.
1789
#10387
An essay on the preservation of the health of persons employed in agriculture, and on the cure of the diseases incident to that way of life.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
1789
#11957
Hortus kewensis; or, a catalogue of the plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
1789
#11976
Genera plantarum: Secundum ordines naturales disposita, juxta methodum in horto regio parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV
Jussieu was the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants, basing his system on a extensive unpublished work by his deceased uncle, the botanist Bernard de Jussieu. "In his study of flowering plant…
1789
#13134
Tratado de las heridas de armas de fuego, dispuesto para uso de los alumnos del Real Colegio de Chirugia de Cadiz.
Probably the first significant work on military medicine by a Spanish physician. Canivell’s work, prepared for the use of students at Cadiz’s Royal College of Surgery, deals with contusions, wounds and fractures cause…
1789
#13686
A historical account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich. M,DCC,LXXXIX.
"This describes the former Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich, originally designed in 1664 by John Webb as a palace, and afterwards adapted for use as a Naval Hospital by Sir Christopher Wren, with the assistance of Ni…
1789
#13763
A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria. In the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, eight, and nine.
Trained in horticulture at Syon House, London, Paterson was sent in 1777 to the Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the estate of the Countess of Strathmore, undertaking four journeys into the South African interi…