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Start Over main ✖Remove constraint main Collections Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 ✖Remove constraint Collections: Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1920 Languages English ✖Remove constraint Languages: English Copyright Public domain ✖Remove constraint Copyright: Public domain Publication Year 1796 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1796">1796</span>

1. Pennsylvania, ss. In the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by Thomas Mifflin, governor of the said commonwealth, a proclamation: whereas I have heretofore issued a proclamation, bearing date of the 29th day of June last, thereby declaring and establishing a quarantine to be performed by all vessels arriving in this port from any of the West-India Islands, from New-Orleans, or from any Dutch, French or Spanish port, on the Main ... Hereby publicly notifying, that, during the continuance of said quarantine, all vessels suspected of infection shall anchor under the guns of the fort on Mud-Island ...Given under my hand and the great seal o- [sic] the state, at Philadelphia, the twentieth day July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six

Author(s):
Pennsylvania. Governor (1790-1799 : Mifflin)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1796]
Subject(s):
Quarantine -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania

6. An inaugural dissertation on the chemical and medical history of septon, azote, or nitrogene: and its combination with the matter of heat and the principle of acidity ; submitted to the public examination of the faculty of physic, under the authority of the trustees of Columbia College in the state of New-York ; William Samuel Johnson, LL.D president : for the degree of Doctor of Physic ; on the third day of May, 1796

Author(s):
Saltonstall, Winthrop, 1775-1802
Publication:
New-York : Printed by T. and J. Swords, printers to the faculty of physic of Columbia College, no. 99 Pearl-Street, 1796
Subject(s):
Chemistry
Disease
Nitrogen
Coloring Agents

8. A short account of the origin, symptoms, and most approved method of treating the putrid bilious yellow fever, vulgarly called the black vomit: which appeared in the city of Havanna, with the utmost violence, in the months of June, July, and part of August, 1794

Author(s):
Holliday, John.
Publication:
Boston : Printed by Manning & Loring, for S. Hall, no. 53, and C. Bingham, no. 44, Cornhill, 1796
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Cuba