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The American Philosophical Society
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P. Fumagalli, View of the New Market from the Corner of Shippen and Second Street, ca.1787. (print). |
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John Gottlieb E. Heckewelder, Names of various trees, shrubs & plants in the language of the Lenape. 1815. |
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Reuben Haines. Catharine Haines, Notebook. 1776 (ms.coll.52, series III: Haines, Reuben [I or II]). |
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Benjamin Rush, An Oration, delivered February 4, 1774, before the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia. Containing, an enquiry into the natural history of medicine among the Indians in North-America. 1774. |
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Benjamin Smith Barton; drawings, notes, and a poem. |
The College of Physicians
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Etienne Pariset, Observations sur la fievre jaune, faites a Cadix, en 1819. |
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Elizabeth Coates Paschall, Receipt Book. |
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Benjamin Rush. Letters from James Durham to Benjamin Rush. |
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Benjamin Rush. Testimony about Durham’s expertise to the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, November 14, 1788. |
The Library Company of Philadelphia
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Advertisement: Dr. Sanxay’s Medicines, Pennsylvania Packet no. 22, March 23, 1772. |
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Advertisement: Thomas Anderton, Venereal Disease, Pennsylvania Packet no. 22, March 23, 1772. |
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Advertisement: Dr. Hill’s American Balsalm, Pennsylvania Packet no. 21, March 16, 1772. |
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Gris-Gris (DuSimitiere papers). |
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William Smellie. A Set of Anatomical Tables. 1793. |
The University of Pennsylvania Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D., Collections for an Essay Towards a Materia Medica of the United States. 1798. |
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William Paul Crillon Barton, M.D., Vegetable Material Medica of the United States; or Medical Botany...Illustrated by Coloured Engravings, made after original drawings from nature, done by the author. 1817.
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William Buchan. Domestic Medicine: Or, A Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Diseases by Regimen and Simple Medicines with An APPENDIX, containing a Dispensatory for the use of Private Practitioners. Philadelphia, 1793. |
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William P. Dewees. A Compendious System of Midwifery, Chiefly Designed to Facilitate the Inquiries of Those Who May be Pursuing this Branch of Study… 8th ed., 1837. |
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