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Medical and physical memoirs : containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States / by Charles Caldwell.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection R117 .C37
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine.
- Yellow fever.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 1)
- Phillips, William, M.D., Trenton (autograph) (RBC copy 1)
- Physical Description:
- 16 unnumbered pages. 296 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 305 unnumbered pages-348 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas & William Bradford, 1801.
- Contents:
- A physical sketch of the city of Philadelphia, interspersed with general remarks, applicable to all large and populous cities
- Facts and observations relative to the origin and nature of the yellow fever, addressed to the citizens of Philadelphia, in ten numbers
- On the winter retreat of swallows
- 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.
- Notes:
- "An address to the Philadelphia Medical Society on the analogies between yellow fever and the plague" has special t.p.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 268
- OCLC:
- 52613125
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