The Medical Repository - Softcover

Samuel Latham Mitchill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0371421985 ISBN 13: 9780371421987

Publisher: HardPress, 2016

Synopsis

"The Medical Repository" by Samuel Latham Mitchill presents a densely interwoven 1803 issue of medical notes, public-health observations, and cross-border scientific exchange. It gathers an encyclopedic collection of reports, reviews, and notices spanning medicine, natural history, chemistry, agriculture, and technology, reflecting an early American scientific culture oriented toward practical applications. The issue includes introductory material and contents for Volume VI, followed by seven substantive articles and various reviews. Subjects include Hatchett’s analysis of a Columbian mineral and a tribute to a recently deceased American chemist, and a lengthy obituary of Thomas P. Smith; medical debates on the dangers and efficacy of corrosive sublimate (mercury) for gonorrhea; explorations of vascular pulsation and fluid dynamics; descriptions of cutaneous diseases and hemlock remedies; and cautions against mercury overuse, as well as discussions of tetters, bladder ailments, and therapies involving belladonna and other mercurials. Public health coverage surveys yellow fever across Atlantic ports, debates contagion versus environment, and details sanitary measures and Board of Health actions. Additional threads cover the American Board of Agriculture, smallpox inoculation, botany, ice-house refrigeration, astronomy, and miscellaneous notes, all illustrating a transatlantic, interdisciplinary effort to advance medicine, public health, agriculture, and industrial knowledge through practical experimentation and collaboration.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0371421985
• ISBN 13: 9780371421987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512