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1924. Observations on the climate in different parts of America: compared with the climate in corresponding parts of the other continent : to which are added, remarks on the different complexions of the human race ; with some account of the aborigines of America : being an introductory discourse to the History of North-Carolina

1925. Lectures on diet and regimen: being a systematic inquiry into the most rational means of preserving health and prolonging life : together with physiological and chemical explanations, calculated chiefly for the use of families, in order to banish the prevailing abuses and prejudices in medicine

1926. An essay on the bilious epidemic fever, prevailing in the state of New-York: to which is added, a letter from Dr. James Mann, surgeon-general to the Army; and a dissertation by Dr. John Stearns, delivered before the state medical society,on the same subject ; with notes and observations on these productions

1927. A view of the 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

1929. A new physical system of astronomy: an attempt to explain the operations of the powers which impel the planets and comets to perform eliptical revolutions round the sun, and revolve on their own axis : in which, the physical system of Sir Isaac Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted ; to which is annexed, a physiological treatise ; in which the first stage of animation is considered, and the means shewn, by which circulation is performed in the first rudiments of the incipient animal, before the vessels are completely organized, &c. ; together with an explanation of the general laws, by which the animal economy is governed ; and particularly, the mode whereby the operations of the vis medicatrix naturae, or the unassisted powers of nature, are exerted to obviate and cure disease ; also, successful methods of curing cancerous ulcers, the quartan ague, putrid fevers, stopping mortifications, and extracting frost, so as to leave the frozen member perfectly well