A view of the science of life, on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D.
Subtitle: with an attempt to correct some important errors of that work, and cases in illustration, chiefly selected from the records of their practice, at the General Hospital, at Calcutta by William Yates, & Charles Maclean. To which is subjoined, A treatise on the action of mercury upon living bodies, and its application for the cure of diseases of indirect debility. And A dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases; in which is attempted to prove, by a numerous induction of facts, that they never arise from contagion, but are always produced by certain states, or certain vicissitudes of the atmosphere
By: by Charles Maclean, of Calcutta
Contributors: Maclean, Charles, active 1788-1824; Maclean, Charles, active 1788-1824; Carrick, Andrew, 1767-1837, Provenance; Bristol Medical Library Society; University of Bristol. Library
Publisher: Printed by William Young, bookseller no. 52, Second-Street, corner of Chesnut-Street, Philadelphia
Published: 1797
Place of publication: Whitehall [Pa.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Notes: "A view of the science of life" and Maclean's treatise and dissertation each have separate title pages: "A treatise on the action of mercury, upon living bodies", and "Dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases"

Bookseller's advertisement, p. 232.

Signatures: [A]2, B-2F4.

Errata: bottom of p. iii.

ESTC, W28521.

Evans, 33254.

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 2099.

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