... Medical and philosophical essays
Subtitle: Containing: 1st. Topographical, historical and other sketches of the city of Charleston, from its first settlement to the present period. 2d. An essay on the prevailng fever of 1817. The 2d ed., with improvements. 3d. An essay on contagions and infections, 2d improved ed. and 4th. An essay on the principles and properties of the electric fluid. The whole of which are designed as illustrative of the domestic origin of the yellow fever of Charleston; and, as conducing to the formation of a medical history of the state of South-Carolina ...
Publisher: Printed for the author by A. E. Miller
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Charleston [S.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Epidemiology
Other titles: Medical and philosophical essays
Notes: "Extracts from a review of the first edition of Dr. Shecut's Essay on the prevailing fever of 1817 ... from the New-York medical repository for April 1818": p. [87]-88.

"Errata": p. [261]

Includes bibliographical references.

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1742

Shaw & Shoemaker 49406

Inscribed "Purchased at the sale of J[ames] G[ates] Percival's library in Boston, April, 1860, J.C.D." on front free endpaper.
Table of contents: title: (from t. p.) containing: 1st. Topographical, historical and other sketches of the city of Charleston, from its first settlement to the present period. 2d. An essay on the prevailing fever of 1817. The second edition, with improvements. 3d. An essay on contagions and infections, (second improved edition.) and 4th. An essay on the principles and properties of the electric fluid.