A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America : at different seasons of the year ; with an account of the most improved method of treating them ; being an abstact [sic] not only of the editor's own experience, but of the experience of several physicians ... residing in the different states ; including the substance of ... improvements that have been made in the treatment of similar diseases in other countries / collected and arranged by William Currie.

  • Currie, William, 1754-1828.
Date:
1811
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Credit: A view of the diseases most prevalent in the United States of America : at different seasons of the year ; with an account of the most improved method of treating them ; being an abstact [sic] not only of the editor's own experience, but of the experience of several physicians ... residing in the different states ; including the substance of ... improvements that have been made in the treatment of similar diseases in other countries / collected and arranged by William Currie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE, HAVING had frequent opportunities, in the course of more than thirty years practice, among different descriptions of people, of observing the relative success of different reme- dies and methods of treating the diseases most prevalent in Philadelphia and the adjacent country, at different seasons of the year; and having had favourable opportunities, from fre- quent consultations, with some of the most experienced and best informed Physicians of Philadelphia, and from many years correspondence with Physicians of distinguished abili- ties and established character, residing in other States, of acquainting myself with the result of their experience and observations, and of comparing them, as well as the result of my own practical observations, with the practice and opinions of the most approved medical writers of Europe, (whose publications I have had constant opportunities of consulting at the veiy excellent Library of the Pennsylvania Hospital) ; and presuming, that the publication of the result of infor- mation derived from such sources, would be acceptable to Physicians in general, and to the junior and less experienced members of the profession in particular, and especially to those who are precluded by situation, from ready access to public libraries, I have been induced by these considerations, to pub- lish the following abstract of the information which t have acquired relative to the history and treatment of the diseases