Medical & physical memoirs : containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States.

  • Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853.
Date:
1801
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas & William Bradford, 1801.

Physical description

16 unnumbered pages, 348 (i. e. 344) pages ; (8vo)

References note

Austin 392

Notes

The first eight numbers of the second memoir appeared in 1799 "in one of the public prints of the city" They are now published with corrections and additions. Cf. Pref
"An address to the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the analogies between yellow fever and true plague" (p. [301]-348, with special title page) was also issued separately in 1801
The author published a different collection under the same title in Lexington, Ky., in 1826-27

Contents

I. A physical sketch of the city of Philadelphia.--II. Facts and observations, relative to the origin and nature of the yellow fever, addressed to the citizens of Philadelphia. In ten numbers.--III. On the winter retreat of swallows.--IV. Strictures on "A memoir concerning the disease of goitre, as it prevails in different parts of North America. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D".--An address to the Philadelphia Medical Society on the analogies between yellow fever and true plague.

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