A view of ehe [sic] science of life
Subtitle: on the principles established in The elements of medicine, of the late celebrated John Brown, M.D. : 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: 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 Charles Maclean, of Calcutta
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 33254
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
Subjects: Medicine; Mercury; Communicable diseases; Early works to 1800; Physiological effect
Other titles: View of the science of life.; Treatise on the action of mercury; Dissertation on the source of epidemic and pestilential diseases
Work titles: View of the science of life
Notes: "A view of the science of life" and Maclean's treatise and dissertation each have separate title pages.

Signatures: [A]1,2,3 B1,2,3 C-2F⁴.

"Errata."--p. iii.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. 232.

Evans 33254

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