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 / By William Yates & Charles Maclean. To which is subjoined, A treatise on the action of mercury, upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility. And a dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere. By Charles Maclean, of Calcutta.

  • Yates, William, active 1797.
Date:
1797
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View of the science of life

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Whitehall [Pa.] : Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia, 1797.

Physical description

8 unnumbered pages, iii, 17-232 pages ; (8vo)

Notes

"A view of the science of life" and Maclean's treatise and dissertation each have separate title pages
Signatures: [A]1,2,3 B1,2,3 C-2F⁴
"Errata"--p. iii
Bookseller's advertisement, p. 232.
Copy 1 Note: Lacks general title-page; index pages bound in wrong order.

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