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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

American Northeast

Exhibiting 60 entries found in the GMN corpus.

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1677 CEA brief rule to guide the common-people of New-England how to order themselves and theirs in the small pocks, or measels.
THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)
THACHER, Thomas (1620 – 1678)
1807 CEA compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1787 CEA Discourse before the Humane Society, ... Delivered on the Second Tuesday of June, 1787.
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
LATHROP, John (1740 – 1816)
1769 CEA discourse upon the duties of a physician, with some sentiments, on the usefulness and necessity of a public hospital: Delivered before the president and governors of King's College, at the commencement, held on the 16th of May, 1769. As advice to those gentlemen who then received the first medical degrees conferred by that university.
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
BARD, Samuel (1742 – 1821)
1765 CEA discourse upon the institution of medical schools in America.…
MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
MORGAN, John (1735 – 1789)
1969 CEA guide to medicinal plants of Appalachia. (U.S.D.A. Forest Service Research Paper NE-138).;
KROCHMAL, Arnold (1919 – ) WALTERS, Russell S. DOUGHTY, Richard M.
1872 CEA history of the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Privately printed in 1851.] Second edition, with a continuation to 1872.
BOWDITCH, Nathaniel Ingersoll (1805 – 1861)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
ELLIS, George Edward (1814 – 1894)
1908 CEA mind that found itself.
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
BEERS, Clifford Whittingham (1876 – 1943)
2006 CEA perfectly striking departure: Surgeons and surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912—1980.
TILNEY, Nicholas L. ( – 2013)
1826 CEA treatise on the diseases of females.
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
DEWEES, William Potts (1768 – 1841)
1801 CEA treatise on the human teeth, concisely explaining their structure and cause of disease and decay.
SKINNER, Richard Cortland ( – 1834)
SKINNER, Richard Cortland ( – 1834)
1828 CEAmerican medical biography. 2 vols.
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
THACHER, James (1754 – 1844)
1845 CEAmerican medical biography…
WILLIAMS, Stephen West (1790 – 1855)
1722 CEAn account of the method and success of inoculating the small pox in Boston in New England.
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
MATHER, Cotton (1663 – 1728)
1822 CEAn account of the yellow fever which occurred in the city of New York, in the year 1822, to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the different pestilential diseases, with which this city was afflicted, in the years 1798, 1799, 1803 & 1805, with the opinion of several of our most eminent physicians, respecting the origin of the disease, its prevention and cure.To which is added a correct list of all the deaths by yellow fever during the late season.
HARDIE, James (1758 – 1826)
1674 CEAn account of two voyages to New-England. Wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges; The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming: a description of the countrey [sic], natives, and creatures; with their merchantil [sic] and physical use; the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c. A large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first discovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1850 CEAn historical sketch of the state of medicine in the American Colonies, from their first settlement to the period of the Revolution.
BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)
BECK, John Brodhead (1794 – 1851)
1797 CEAn inquiry into the cause of the prevalence of the yellow fever in New-York.
SEAMAN, Valentine (1770 – 1817)
1785 CEArbustrum Americanum: the American grove, or, an alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs…
MARSHALL, Humphrey (1722 – 1801)
1963 CEBotanic manuscript of Jane Colden, 1724-1766. Edited by H.W. Rickett and E.C. Hall.
COLDEN, Jane (1724 – 1766) RICKETT, Harold William (1896 – 1989) HALL, Elizabeth Cornelia (1898 – 1989)
1814 CEBotanic medicine: A new and complete American medical family herbal: Wherein is displayed the true properties and medical virtues of the plants, indigenous to the United States of America, together with Lewis' secret remedy newly discovered, which has been found infallible in the cure of that dreadful disease hydrophobia, produced by the bite of a mad dog.
HENRY, Samuel
HENRY, Samuel
1983 CEChanges in the land: Indians, colonists and the ecology of New England.
CRONON, William (1954 – )
CRONON, William (1954 – )
1798 CECollections for an essay towards a materia medica of the United States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the twenty-first of February, 1798.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1761 CEContinuation of the account of the Pennsylvania Hospital, from the first of May 1754, to the fifth of May 1761.
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790) RHOADS, Samuel (1711 – 1784)
1972 CEDisease and society in provincial Massachusetts: Collected accounts, 1736-1939.
CAULFIELD, Ernest (1893 – 1972)
2006 CEDr. Franklin's medicine
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790)
FRANKLIN, Benjamin (1706 – 1790) FINGER, Stanley
1803 CEElements of botany, or outlines of the natural history of vegetables.
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1753 CE​–1761 CEEn Resa til Norra America. 2 vols.
KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1799 CEFragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania. Part First [All Published].
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
BARTON, Benjamin Smith (1766 – 1815)
1856 CEGlances and glimpses; or fifty years social, including twenty years professional life.
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
HUNT, Harriot Kezia (1805 – 1875)
1667 CEGods terrible voice in the city of London wherein you have the narration of the two late dreadful judgements of plague and fire, inflicted by the Lord upon that city; the former in the year 1665. The latter in the year 1666
VINCENT, Thomas (1634 – 1678)
1907 CEHamilton's Itinerarium; being a narrative of a journey from Annapolis, Maryland, through Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from May to September, 1744, Edited by Albert Bushnell Hart.
HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
HAMILTON, Alexander (1712 – 1756)
1911 CEHospital management: A handbook for hospital trustees, superintendents, training-school principals, physicians, and all who are actively engaged in promoting hospital work. Edited by Charlotte A. Aikens.
AIKENS, Charlotte Albina (1868 – 1949)
1957 CEIndustrial medicine in western Pennsylvania, 1850-1950.
HAZLETT, Theodore Lyle (1885 – 1967) HUMMEL, William W
1722 CEInoculation of the smallpox as practised in Boston.
DOUGLASS, William (1691 – 1752)
1997 CEIroquois medical botany.
HERRICK, James W.
HERRICK, James W.
1812 CEMedical inquiries and observations upon the diseases of the mind.
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
RUSH, Benjamin (1745 – 1813)
1816 CEMedical sketches of the campaigns of 1812, 13, 14. To which are added, surgical cases, observations on military hospitals; and flying hospitals attached to a moving army.
MANN, James (1759 – 1832)
1980 CEMedicine in colonial Massachusetts, 1620-1820. Edited by Philip Cash, Eric H. Christanson and J. Worth Estes.
CASH, Philip (1931 – 2005) ESTES, J. Worth (1934 – 2000) CHRISTANSON, Eric H.
2011 CEMiraculous plagues: An epidemiology of early New England narrative.
SILVA, Cristobal
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: In birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores; also A perfect description of an Indian squa, in all her bravery, with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her; lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passage in that country amongst the English.
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1672 CENew-Englands rarities discovered: in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country. Together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores…
JOSSELYN, John (1630 – 1675)
1763 CEObservations on some of the diseases of the parts of the human body. Chiefly taken from the dissections of morbid bodies.
CLOSSY, Samuel (1724 – 1786)
1832 CEObservations on the epidemic now prevailing in the city of New-York; called the Asiatic or spasmodic cholera; with advice to the planters of the South, for the medical treatment of their slaves.
YATES, Christopher C. (1778 – 1848)
1751 CEObservations on the inhabitants, climate, soil, rivers, productions, animals, and other matter worthy of notice. Made by Mr. John Bartram, in his travels from Pensilvania to Onondago, Oswego and the Lake Ontario, in Canada. To which is annex'd, a curious account of the cataracts at Niagara, by Mr. Peter Kalm....
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777)
BARTRAM, John (1699 – 1777) KALM, Pehr [Pietari; Peter] (1716 – 1779)
1720 CEPharmacopoeia Londinensis; or the London dispensatory…
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
CULPEPER, Nicholas (1616 – 1654)
1802 CEPractical observations on vaccination: or inoculation for the cow pock.
COXE, John Redman (1773 – 1864)
COXE, John Redman (1773 – 1864)
1680 CEPraxis catholica: or the countryman's universal remedy wherein is plainly and briefly laid down the nature, matter, manner, place and cure of most diseases, incident to the body of man, not hitherto discovered, whereby any one of an ordinary capacity may apprehend the true cause of his distempers, wherein his cure consists, and the means to effect it : together with rules how to order children in that most violent disease of vomiting and looseness, &c. : useful likewise for seamen and travellers : also an account of an imcomparable powder for wounds or hurts which cure any ordinary ones at once dressing. Written by Robert Couch, sometime practitioner in physick and chyrurgery, at Boston in New-England. Now published with divers useful additions (for public benefit) by Chr. Pack, operator in chymistry.
COUCH, Robert
PACKE, Christopher (1657 – 1708)
PACKE, Christopher (1657 – 1708)
1790 CERemarks on the diseases of the teeth.
GARDETTE, James (1756 – 1831)
1791 CEReturn of the whole number of persons with the several districts of the United States, according to "An Act Providing for the Enumeration of the Inhabitants of the United States," passed March the first, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
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