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Lexington, KY

6 entries published in this place. (Lexington, US)

1820 CE

#10617

Ichthyologia Ohiensis, or natural history of the fishes inhabiting the river Ohio and its tributary streams, preceded by a physical description of the Ohio and its branches.

In Rafinesque's polemic style the title page includes the following statement: "The art of seeing well, or of noticing and distinguishing with accuracy the objects which we perceive, is a high faculty of the mind, unf…

1824 CE

#13719

Elements of phrenology.

The first book on phrenology written by an American. Digital facsimile from U.S. National Library of Medicine at this link.

1977 CE

#10323

Medicine in Kentucky.

1987 CE

#13174

Catalogue of the Transylvania University Medical Library.

The library of the Transylvania Medical Department, prominent in American medicine during the first half of the 19th century, but which closed in 1859.

2013 CE

#11582

Kenelm Digby's Two Treatises, edited with an introduction by Paul. S. MacDonald.

2015 CE

#9859

Yellow Fever and Public Health in the New South.

"The public health movement in the South began in the wake of a yellow fever epidemic that devastated the lower Mississippi Valley in 1878--a disaster that caused 20,000 deaths and financial losses of nearly $200 mill…