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Medicine in the Americas
Historical Works
History of Medicine Division.
Bethesda (MD): National Library of Medicine (US); 2004-.
"Medicine in the Americas" is a digital library project providing scanned historical American medical books and searchable versions of the texts.
The National Library of Medicine is the largest medical library in the world, and the History of Medicine Division's collection of early American medical imprints is incomparable. "Medicine in the Americas" draws on this collection and includes works not only from the United States but from all over the New World.
Contents
- The Red Cross of the Geneva Convention: What It Is. (Washington, DC: Rufus H.
Darby, Steam Power Book and Job Printer, 1878) [PDF Version]Clara Barton (1821-1912)
- Mortality Among Negroes in Cities: Proceedings of the Conference for
Investigations of City Problems, Atlanta, 1896. (Atlanta: Atlanta University Press,
1903) [PDF Version]Thomas N. Chase (fl. 1903)
- Introduction
- Remarks of President Bumstead
- Occasion and Purpose of the Conference, and an Outline of the Plan of Work
- Reports from the City of Washington
- Report from Atlanta
- Causes of Excessive Mortality: Neglect
- Causes of Excessive Mortality: Poverty
- Infant Mortality
- The Cities
- Resolutions of the Conference
- [Historical Note]
- [Bibliographic Information]
- Some Observations on the New Method Of Receiving the Small Pox by Ingrafting or
Inoculating. (Boston, 1721) [PDF Version]Benjamin Colman (1673-1747)
- The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and
Children’s Nurses. (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1894) [PDF Version]L. Emmett Holt (1855-1924)
- A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the Late Awful
Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793: And a Refutation of some Censures,
Thrown upon Them in Some Late Publications. (Philadelphia: Printed for the authors,
by William W. Woodward, 1794) [PDF Version]Absalom Jones (1746-1818) and Allen Richard (1760-1831)
- Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation.
(Boston: Button and Wentworth, Printer, 1847) [PDF Version]William T.G. Morton (1819-1868)
- Directions for Preserving the Health of Soldiers, Addressed to the Officers of
the Army of the United States. [Philadelphia : Printed for Thomas Dobson, Fry and
Kammerer, printers, 1808] [PDF Version]Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)
- Pure Food and Drug Act (1906). United States Statutes at Large
(59th Cong., Sess. I, Chp. 3915, p. 768-772; cited as 34 U.S. Stats. 768) [PDF Version]United States.
- An Account of the Asylum for the Insane, Established by the Society of Friends,
near Frankford, in the Vicinity of Philadelphia. (Philadelphia: Benjamin &
Thomas Kite, 1825.) [PDF Version]Robert Waln (1794-1825)
- Medicine in the AmericasMedicine in the AmericasBookself
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