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MEDICAL INQUIRIES
AND
OBSERVATIONS.

BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, AND OF CLINICAL PRACTICE, IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. IV.
THE SECOND EDITION,
REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR.
PHILADELPHIA,
PUBLISHED BY J. CONRAD & CO. CHESNUT-STREET, PHILADELPHIA; M. & J. CONRAD & CO. MARKET-STREET, BALTIMORE; RAPIN, CONRAD, & CO. WASHINGTON; SOMERVELL & CONRAD, PETERSBURG; AND BONSAL, CONRAD, & CO. NORFOLK.
PRINTED BY T. & G. PALMER, 116, HIGH-STREET.
1805.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV.

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An account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1797[1]
An account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1798[63]
An account of the bilious yellow fever, as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1799[89]
An account of sporadic cases of yellow fever, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1800[101]
An account of sporadic cases of yellow fever, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1801[109]
An account of the measles, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1801[115]
An account of the yellow fever, as it appeared in 1802[121]
An account of the yellow fever, as it appeared in 1803[131]
An account of sporadic cases of yellow fever, as they appeared in 1804[145]
An account of the yellow fever, as it appeared in 1805[151]
An inquiry into the various sources of the usual forms of the summer and autumnal disease in the United States, and the means of preventing them[161]
Facts, intended to prove the yellow fever not to be contagious[221]
Defence of blood-letting, as a remedy in certain diseases[273]
An inquiry into the comparative states of medicine in Philadelphia, between the years 1760 and 1766, and 1805[363]