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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 1797 ✖Remove constraint Publication Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1797">1797</span>

1. To the Senate and House of Representatives, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: the memorial of the managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital, respectfully sheweth, that, in the beginning of the year 1751, a plan was presented to the Assembly, for a public hospital, for the benevolent purpose of receiving and accommodating the lunatics and sick poor of Pennsylvania

Author(s):
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publication:
[Philadelphia : s.n., 1797]
Subject(s):
Hospitals, Public -- legislation & jurisprudence
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)

2. Short history of the yellow fever, that broke out in the city of Philadelphia, in July 1797: with a list of the dead; of the donations for the relief of the poor, and a variety of other interesting particulars

Author(s):
Folwell, Richard, 1768?-1814
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by Richard Folwell, no. 33, Carter's-Alley, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Yellow Fever
Disease Outbreaks
Mortality
Philadelphia -- epidemiology

3. An inaugural dissertation on the production of animal heat: read and defended at a public examination, held by the medical professors, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. L.L.D. president, and the governors of Harvard College, for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, July 10, 1797

Author(s):
Spalding, Lyman, 1775-1821
Publication:
Printed at Walpole, Newhampshire : By David Carlisle, Jun. 1797
Subject(s):
Friction
Hot Temperature

6. An inaugural dissertation, on the rheumatic state of fever: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost : the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine

Author(s):
North, Edward Washington, -1843
Publication:
Philadelphia : Printed by William W. Woodward, no. 17, Chesnut Street, 1797
Subject(s):
Rheumatic Diseases

9. The case of the manufacturers of soap & candles in the city of New-York, stated and examined: to which are prefixed, the laws of the state of New-York, concerning infectious diseases ; with an addition, in form of an appendix ; containing, several documents and papers, relative to these subjects

Author(s):
Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831
Publication:
New-York : Printed by John Buel, for the association, MDCCXCVII [1797]
Subject(s):
Communicable Disease Control -- legislation & jurisprudence
Disease Outbreaks -- legislation & jurisprudence
Textile Industry -- legislation & jurisprudence
Communicable Diseases
Soaps
Fats
New York -- epidemiology

10. A view of ehe [sic] science of life: on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. ; with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work ; and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta

Author(s):
Yates, William, active 1797
Publication:
Whitehall [Pa.] : Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1797
Subject(s):
Medicine
Disease
Disease Outbreaks
Brown, John, 1735-1788.