American Medicine

A group of 14 works in 15 volumes (one duplicate) being eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medical tracts, various formats and bindings, condition generally good, including:



Bigelow, Jacob. A Treatise on the Materia Medica Intended as a Sequel to the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. Boston: Charles Ewer, 1822. — College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Facts and Observations Relative to the Nature and Origin of Pestilential Fever. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1798. —College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Additional Facts and Observations Relative to... Pestilential Fever. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1806. — Condie, Thomas and Richard Folwell. History of the Pestilence Commonly Called Yellow Fever. Philadelphia: R. Folwell, [1799]. — Currie, William. A Treatise on the ... Yellow Fever .... Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1794. — Currie, William. A View of the Diseases Most Prevalent in the United States of America. Philadelphia: J. & A.Y. Humphreys, 1811.  — Rush, Benjamin. A Second Address to the Citizens of Philadelphia Containing Additional Proofs of the Domestic Origins of  ... Yellow Fever. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1799. — The Medical Societies and Colleges. The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1820. 2 copies. — and others.

Bayle, A.L.J. and H. Hollard, S.D. Gross, translation. A Manual of General Anatomy. Philadelphia: John Grigg, 1828. Brown, John. The Elements of Medicine, A Translation.... Philadelphia: T. Dobson, 1790. Paris, J.A. Pharmacologia. New York: E. Duyckinck, Collins & Co. and others, 1828. 3rd American ed. Smith, Samuel Stanhope. An Essay on the Causes of the Variety...in the Human Species. Philadelphia: Robert Aitken, 1787. Thatcher, James. The American New Dispensatory. Boston: B. Wait and Co., 1810. Wilson, J. and William Meade. A Manual of Chirurgical Pharmacy.... Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson and Son, 1818.
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