Nature in disease : illustrated in various discourses and essays : to which are added miscellaneous writings, chiefly on medical subjects / by Jacob Bigelow.

  • Bigelow, Jacob, 1786-1879.
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Nature in disease and other writings.

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Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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vii, 391 pages ; 19 cm

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Includes index.

Contents

On self-limited diseases.--On the treatment of disease.--Practical views of medical education.--Report on homoeopathy.--On the medical profession, and quackery.--On gout and its treatment.--On the treatment of injuries occasioned by fire and heated substances.--On the burial of the dead, and the cemetery at Mount Auburn.--Remarks and experiments on pneumothorax.--On the pharmacopoeia of the United States.--On the mucuna pruriens, with remarks on the irritability of different textures.--On the poisonous effects of the American partridge, or ruffed grouse.--On coffee and tea, and their medical effects.--Report on the action of cochituate water on lead pipes, and the influence of the same on health.--On the history and use of tobacco.--On the early history of medicine.--Address delivered before the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at the opening of their course of lectures, October 27, 1852.

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