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The history of medicine in the United States; a collection of facts and documents relating to the history of medical science in this country, from the earliest English colonization to the year 1800, with a supplemental chapter on the discovery of anaesthesia.
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Philadelphia,
Lippincott,
1901.
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Table of Contents:
- Medical events connected with the early history of the English colonies in America
- Epidemic sickness and mortality in North America from its earliest discovery by the English to the year 1800
- Medical education before the foundation of medical schools
- The earliest medical schools in the United States
- The medical profession in the War for Independence
- The earliest hospitals
- History of the medical societies founded before the year 1800
- Pre-Revolutionary medical bibliography
- Medial legislation in the colonies
- The discovery of anæthesia
- Appendices. A. The examination of Dr. Church ; B. Dr. John Morgan's memorial ; C. The Pennsylvania Hospital and reminiscences of the physicians and surgeons who have served it / by Charles D. Meigs ; D. List of authorities ; Medical societies founded in the United States before the year 1825.