Medical & physical memoirs
Subtitle: containing, among other subjects, a particular enquiry into the origin and nature of the late pestilential epidemics of the United States ...
Publisher: Printed by Thomas & William Bradford
Published: 1801
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Yellow fever; Plague; Goiter; Disease Outbreaks; Medicine; Yellow Fever; Birds
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," 20th February, 1801 (p. [305]-348, with special title page) was issued separately in 1801.

Austin 392.
Table of contents: title: I. A physical sketch of the city of Philadelphia; title: II. Facts and observations, relative to the origin and nature of the yellow fever, addressed to the citizens of Philadelphia. In ten numbers; title: III. On the winter retreat of swallows; title: 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.".; title: An address to the Philadelphia Medical Society on the analogies between yellow fever and true plague.