An inaugural dissertation on the unity of disease, as opposed to nosology : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. Provost; the trustees & medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Alexander May, of Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

May, Alexander.

Contributor:

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pathology--Early works to 1800.

Pathology.

Genre:

Academic dissertations -- Pennsylvania -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Gibson, James (autograph)

Archer, John, jr. (bookplate) (copy 2)

Harlan, Max (former owner) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

26 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff ..., 1800.

Notes:

Thesis (M.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1800.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Another copy bound with Seip, Frederic. An inaugural dissertation on cataract. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Trent, Joseph. An inquiry into the effects of light in respiration. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Moore, John. An inaugural dissertation on digitalis purpurea, or fox-glove. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Glover, Joseph. An attempt to prove that digestion, in man depends on the united causes of solution and fermentation. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Berkeley, Robert. An inquiry into the modus operandi of that class of medicines called sedatives. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Rousseau, John Baptiste Clement. An inaugural dissertation on absorption. Philadelphia, 1800.--Agnew, James. An inaugural dissertation on perspiration. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Smith, Edward Darrell. Inaugural dissertation, being an attempt to prove that certain substances are conveyed, unchanged, into the circulation. Philadelphia, 1800.-- Gough, John Parker. An essay on cantharides. Philadelphia, 1800.

Another two copies bound with Agnew, James. An inaugural dissertation on perspiration. Philadelphia, 1800. (RBC QP221.A3.1800 c.2)

Copy 5 with copy 2 of: An inaugural dissertation on cataract / by Frederic Seip, of Philadelphia. Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff ..., 1800.

Smith copy contains copious ms. notes throughout.

Smith copy bound with: Chalwill, William G. A dissertation on the sources of malignant bilious, or yellow fever, and means of preventing it. Philadelphia : Printed by Way & Groff, no. 48, North Third-Street, 1799. [Item 2 of 10]

Cited in:

Evans 37943.

Adams, T.R. Amer. medical dissertations 122.

Austin, R. B. Early Amer. medical imprints 1240.

OCLC:

185063126