Nature in disease, illustrated in various discourses and essays
Subtitle: to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects
By: by Jacob Bigelow ; with a new introd. by Lawrence A. May.
Publisher: Dabor Science Publications
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Oceanside, N.Y
Language: eng
Subjects: Medicine.
Notes: Cataloging based on CIP information.
Reprint of the 1854 ed. published by Ticknor and Fields, Boston, with a new introd.
Table of contents: title: On self-limited diseases.; title: On the treatment of disease.; title: Practical views of medical education.; title: Report on homoeopathy.; title: On the medical profession, and quackery.; title: On gout and its treatment.; title: On the treatment of injuries occasioned by fire and heated substances.; title: On the burial of the dead, and the cemetery at Mount Auburn.; title: Remarks and experiments on pneumothorax.; title: On the pharmacopoeia of the United States.; title: On the mucuna pruriens, with remarks on the irritability of different textures.; title: On the poisonous effects of the American partridge, or ruffed grouse.; title: On coffee and tea, and their medical effects.; title: Report on the action of cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health.; title: On the history and use of tobacco.; title: On the early history of medicine.; title: Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the opening of their course of lectures, October 27, 1852.