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Infectious Diseases

A collection of literature and scientific research pertaining to various infectious diseases, epidemics, and pandemics throughout the ages. Notable works include early editions of the works of Benjamin Rush, a first edition of A New Theory of Consumptions by Benjamin Marten, an inscribed third edition of The Cause and Prevention of Yellow Fever at New Orleans and Other Cities in America by E. H. Barton, and a later edition of A Treatise on a Consumption of the Lungs by Edward Barry.

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[Corvisart, Jean-Nicolas]
ESSAI SUR LES MALADIES ET LES LESIONS ORGANIQUES DU COEUR ET DES GROS VAISSEAUX; EXTRAIT DES LECONS CLINIQUES DE J.N. CORVISART....PUBLIE, SOUS SES YEUX, PAR C.E. HOREAU
Price: $1,200.00
PHTHISIOLOGIA, SIVE TRACTATUS DE PHTHISI, IN III. LIBROS COMPREHENFUS, TOTUMQUE OPUS VARIIS
Morton, Richardi, M.D. (1637-1698). With contributions by Harris, Gualtero, M.D. (1647-1732); Cole, Giulielmi, M.D. (1635-1716); Lister, Martini, M.D. (1639-1712); Sydenham, Thomae, M.D. (1624-1689)
PHTHISIOLOGIA, SIVE TRACTATUS DE PHTHISI, IN III. LIBROS COMPREHENFUS, TOTUMQUE OPUS VARIIS
Price: $2,200.00
OPERA UNIVERSA [TOGETHER WITH] EPISTOLAE RESPONSORIAE, PRIMA DE MORBIS EPIDEMICIS, SECUNDA DE LUIS VENEREAE [TOGETHER WITH] SCHEDULA MONITORIA DE NOVAE FEBRIS INGRESSU [Three volumes in one]
Sydenham, Thomas
OPERA UNIVERSA [TOGETHER WITH] EPISTOLAE RESPONSORIAE, PRIMA DE MORBIS EPIDEMICIS, SECUNDA DE LUIS VENEREAE [TOGETHER WITH] SCHEDULA MONITORIA DE NOVAE FEBRIS INGRESSU [Three volumes in one]
Price: $1,400.00
MEDICAL INQUIRIES AND OBSERVATIONS: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE BILIOUS REMITTING AND INTERMITTING YELLOW FEVER, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA IN THE YEAR 1794. TOGETHER WITH AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF FEVER; AND A DEFENCE OF BLOOD-LETTING A
Rush, Benjamin
MEDICAL INQUIRIES AND OBSERVATIONS: CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE BILIOUS REMITTING AND INTERMITTING YELLOW FEVER, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA IN THE YEAR 1794. TOGETHER WITH AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROXIMATE CAUSE OF FEVER; AND A DEFENCE OF BLOOD-LETTING A
Price: $800.00
MEDICAL INQUIRIES AND OBSERVATIONS CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1797, AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE NATURE AND CURE OF THE GOUT, AND HYDROPHOBIA (Volume Five Only)
Rush, Benjamin
MEDICAL INQUIRIES AND OBSERVATIONS CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF THE YELLOW FEVER, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA IN 1797, AND OBSERVATIONS UPON THE NATURE AND CURE OF THE GOUT, AND HYDROPHOBIA (Volume Five Only)
Price: $1,000.00
A CONCISE VIEW OF ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS WHICH HAVE HITHERTO APPEARED CONCERNING THE COW-POX
Aikin, C.R.
A CONCISE VIEW OF ALL THE MOST IMPORTANT FACTS WHICH HAVE HITHERTO APPEARED CONCERNING THE COW-POX
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Marten, Benjamin
A NEW THEORY OF CONSUMPTIONS: MORE ESPECIALLY OF A PHTHISIS, OR CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS
Price: $3,500.00
Barry, Edward
A TREATISE ON A CONSUMPTION OF THE LUNGS. WITH A PREVIOUS ACCOUNT OF NUTRITION, AND OF THE STRUCTURE AND USE OF THE LUNGS
Price: $1,750.00
THE SEATS AND CAUSES OF DISEASES, INVESTIGATED BY ANATOMY; CONTAINING A GREAT VARIETY OF DISSECTIONS, AND ACCOMPANIED WITH REMARKS [Two volumes]
Morgagni, John Baptist
THE SEATS AND CAUSES OF DISEASES, INVESTIGATED BY ANATOMY; CONTAINING A GREAT VARIETY OF DISSECTIONS, AND ACCOMPANIED WITH REMARKS [Two volumes]
Price: $2,500.00
NOSOLOGIA METHODICA: CALSSIUM ET GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ET VARIETATUM SERIES MORBORUM EXHIBENS
Davidge, John
NOSOLOGIA METHODICA: CALSSIUM ET GENERUM ET SPECIERUM ET VARIETATUM SERIES MORBORUM EXHIBENS
Price: $1,800.00
A TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE
Hunter, John
A TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL DISEASE
Price: $500.00
CASES OF DISEASED BLADDER AND TESTICLE. ILLUSTRATED WITH ETCHINGS
Wadd, William
CASES OF DISEASED BLADDER AND TESTICLE. ILLUSTRATED WITH ETCHINGS
Price: $500.00
OBSERVATIONS ON HYDROPHOBIA, PRODUCED BY THE BITE OF A MAD DOG, OR OTHER RABID ANIMAL
Thatcher, James
OBSERVATIONS ON HYDROPHOBIA, PRODUCED BY THE BITE OF A MAD DOG, OR OTHER RABID ANIMAL
Price: $500.00
ILLUSTRATIONS OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION, ITS ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. WITH TWELVE PLATES, DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE (INSCRIBED)
Morton, Samuel George
ILLUSTRATIONS OF PULMONARY CONSUMPTION, ITS ANATOMICAL CHARACTERS, CAUSES, SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT. WITH TWELVE PLATES, DRAWN AND COLOURED FROM NATURE (INSCRIBED)
Price: $800.00
ESSAYS ON THE AUTUMNAL AND WINTER EPIDEMICS [Bound with] REMARKS ON THE CHOLERA IN LEXINGTON, IN JUNE AND JULY, 1833 [Bound with] AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED TO THE MEDICA CLASS OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY [Bound with] REMARKS ON SOME OF THE DISEASE
Cooke, John Esten
ESSAYS ON THE AUTUMNAL AND WINTER EPIDEMICS [Bound with] REMARKS ON THE CHOLERA IN LEXINGTON, IN JUNE AND JULY, 1833 [Bound with] AN INTRODUCTORY LECTURE, DELIVERED TO THE MEDICA CLASS OF TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY [Bound with] REMARKS ON SOME OF THE DISEASE
Price: $1,200.00
NOUVELLE METHODE POUR RECONNAITRE LES MALADIES INTERNES DE LA POINTRINE PAR LA PERCUSSION DE CETTE CAVITE
Avenbrugger, [Leopold]; Corvisart, J.N. [translator]
NOUVELLE METHODE POUR RECONNAITRE LES MALADIES INTERNES DE LA POINTRINE PAR LA PERCUSSION DE CETTE CAVITE
Price: $650.00
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, NATURE AND CURE OF THE SMALL-POX. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A PREFATORY ADDRESS TO DR. MEAD, CONCERNING THE PRESENT DISCIPLINE IN THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF PHYSIC IN THIS KINGDOM
Thompson, Thomas
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN, NATURE AND CURE OF THE SMALL-POX. TO WHICH IS ADDED, A PREFATORY ADDRESS TO DR. MEAD, CONCERNING THE PRESENT DISCIPLINE IN THE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF PHYSIC IN THIS KINGDOM
Price: $750.00
THE NATURE AND CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS, WHETHER A PHTHISICK, AN ATROPHY, OR AN HECTICK. WITH PRELIMINARY EXERCITATIONS
Bennet, Christopher
THE NATURE AND CURE OF CONSUMPTIONS, WHETHER A PHTHISICK, AN ATROPHY, OR AN HECTICK. WITH PRELIMINARY EXERCITATIONS
Price: $500.00
A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE CHEST, AND ON MEDIATE AUSCULTATION. WITH PLATES
Laennec, R. T. H. [Author]; Forbes, John [Translator]; Fisher, John D. [Notes Translator]
A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE CHEST, AND ON MEDIATE AUSCULTATION. WITH PLATES
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A TREATISE ON A MALIGNANT EPIDEMIC, COMMONLY CALLED SPOTTED FEVER; INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS ON THE NATURE OF FEVER IN GENERAL, &C. AND AN APPENDIX, IN WHICH IS REPUBLISHED A NUMBER OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS ON THIS EPIDEMIC, WITH THE ADDITIO
North, Elisha
A TREATISE ON A MALIGNANT EPIDEMIC, COMMONLY CALLED SPOTTED FEVER; INTERSPERSED WITH REMARKS ON THE NATURE OF FEVER IN GENERAL, &C. AND AN APPENDIX, IN WHICH IS REPUBLISHED A NUMBER OF ESSAYS WRITTEN BY DIFFERENT AUTHORS ON THIS EPIDEMIC, WITH THE ADDITIO
Price: $500.00
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