An inaugural dissertation on the unity of disease, as opposed to nosology
Subtitle: submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost; the trustees and medical faculty, of the University of Pennsylvania, on the thirty-first of May 1800, for the degree of Doctor of Medicine
By: By Alexander May, of Pennsylvania. ; E pluribus unum
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 37943
Publisher: Printed by Way & Groff, no. 48, North Third-Street.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Dissertations; Pathology; Nosology; Early works to 1800; Disease; Academic Dissertations; University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine
Notes: Dedicated to Benjamin Rush, M.D., and to Arthur May, M.D., the author's brother.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴ D1.

Includes bibliographical references.

Evans 37943

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1240

ESTC W20518
Table of contents: title: I. Disease is simply morbid excitement, or wrong action; title: II. Diseases have been divided from their remote causes; but this is improper as they all act ... one way... by stimulus; title: III. Disease cannot be divided from the predisposing cause; it is a unit; title: IV. Diseases have been divided from the exciting cause; title: V. Disease have been divided from their proximate cause, but this is improper, for the proximate cause is a unit; title: VI. Nosologists have even given different names to diseases from their different seats.