If this edition of Medical Inquiries and Observations should be less imperfect than the former, the reader is requested to ascribe it to the author having profited by the objections he encouraged his pupils to make to his principles, in their inaugural dissertations, and in conversation; and to the many useful facts which have been communicated to him by his medical brethren, whose names have been mentioned in the course of the work.
For the departure, in the modes of practice adopted or recommended in these Inquiries, from those which time and experience have sanctioned, in European and in East and West-Indian countries, the author makes the same defence of himself, that Dr. Baglivi made, near a century ago, of his modes of practice in Rome. “Vivo et scribo in aere Romano,” said that illustrious physician. The author has lived and written in the climate of Pennsylvania, and in the city of Philadelphia.
November 18th, 1805.
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
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| An inquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians of North-America, and a comparative view of their diseases and remedies with those of civilized nations | [1] |
| An account of the climate of Pennsylvania, and its influence upon the human body | [69] |
| An account of the bilious remitting fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in the summer and autumn of the year 1780 | [115] |
| An account of the scarlatina anginosa, as it appeared in Philadelphia in the years 1783 and 1784 | [135] |
| An inquiry into the cause and cure of the cholera infantum | [153] |
| Observations on the cynanche trachealis | [167] |
| An account of the efficacy of blisters and bleeding, in the cure of obstinate intermitting fevers | [177] |
| An account of the disease occasioned by drinking cold water in warm weather, and the method of curing it | [181] |
| An account of the efficacy of common salt in the cure of hæmoptysis | [189] |
| Thoughts on the cause and cure of pulmonary consumption | [197] |
| Observations upon worms in the alimentary canal, and upon anthelmintic medicines | [215] |
| An account of the external use of arsenic in the cure of cancers | [235] |
| Observations on the tetanus | [245] |
| The result of observations made upon the diseases which occurred in the military hospitals of the United States, during the revolutionary war | [267] |
| An account of the influence of the military and political events of the American revolution upon the human body | [277] |
| An inquiry into the relation of tastes and aliments to each other, and into the influence of this relation upon health and pleasure | [295] |
| The new method of inoculating for the small-pox | [309] |
| An inquiry into the effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind, with an account of the means of preventing, and the remedies for curing them | [335] |
| Observations on the duties of a physician, and the methods of improving medicine; accommodated to the present state of society and manners in the United States | [385] |
| An inquiry into the causes and cure of sore legs | [401] |
| An account of the state of the body and mind in old age, with observations on its diseases, and their remedies | [425] |