Physical sketches, or out lines of correctives, applied to certain modern errours in physick / By John B. Davidge.

Baltimore : Printed by William Warner ....., 1814-[23]

3 volumes : engr. plates ; (8vo)

Austin #625

Largely previously published works by Davidge and correspondence, with some selections from other authors

"A treatise on the autumnal endemial epidemick ... commonly called the yellow fever": v. [1], p. [57]-136, with a special title page dated 1813; apparently reprinted, with slight differences, from the Baltimore edition of 1798

Vols. II-III printed by J. Robinson; vol. III has title: Physical sketches

[1] Menstruous action. Yellow fever. Letter to Governor Mifflin. Pregnancy, a natural condition of the female body. Parturition, a natural function of the female body. Pathology of wounded arteries. Review of Dr. Mease's case of aneurism.--II. Amputation. Inflammation. Pathology of divided arteries. Phenomena of animation.--III. A reference to the infirmary, by Linacre. Yellow fever, by Desportes. Remarks on the above fever, by Paeon. Criticisms on the employment of mercury in fever, by Ezra Gillingham. Exchange of function, examined by Paeon. Tracheotomy superseded by nature, by Samuel Sherwan. A memoir on the fracture of the thigh-bone, by J. B. Davidge. Medical schools of Paris, by Jno. Cross, &c. Small-pox, by Celsus. Extirpation of the parotid gland, by J. B. Davidge. Professional usage justified by etymology, by Linacre.