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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853 10824

Contributor:

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853

Language:

English

Physical Description:

[16], 348 (i. e. 344) p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Thomas & William Bradford, 1801.

Contents:

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.

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.

Signatures: [A]-Qq[superscript 4] ; (1), (1), (2), (3), (4), (1).

Half-tilte.

Local Notes:

([B4] errata).

Retrospective conversion record: original entry.

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Shaw, 268

Related Work:

Caldwell, Charles, 1772-1853 Address to the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the analogies between yellow fever and true plague.