Nature in disease
Subtitle: illustrated in various discourses and essays, to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects
By: by Jacob Bigelow
Contributors: Royal College of Surgeons of England
Edition: 2nd ed., enl.
Publisher: Phillips, Sampson
Published: 1859
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
Subjects: Medicine
Notes: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Table of contents: title: Contents: I. On self-limited diseases - II. On the treatment of disease - III. Practical views of medical education - IV. Report on homoeopathy - V. On the medical profession, and quackery - VI. On gout and its treatment - VII. Aphorisms on cholera - VIII. On the treatment of injuries occasioned by fire and heated substances - IX. On the burial of the dead, and the cemetery at Mount Auburn - X. The death of Pliny the Elder - XI. Remarks and experiments on pneumothorax - XII. On the pharmacopoeia of the United States - XIII. On the mucuna pruriens : with remarks on the irritability of different textures - XIV. On the poisonous effects of the American partridge, or ruffed grouse - XV. On coffee and tea, and their medicinal effects - XVI. Report of the action of Cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health - XVII. On the poisonous properties of certain American species of rhus - XVIII .On the history and use of tobacco - XIX. On the early history of medicine - XX. Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the opening of their course of lectures, October 27, 1852.