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Excerpt from An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania Governor George Thomas, of the Province of Pennsylvania, wrote to the Bishop of Exeter, England, April 23, 1747. The Germans of Pennsylvania, are, I believe, three-fifths of the whole population, (whole population, They have, by their industry, been the principal instruments of raising the state to its present ¿ourishing condition, beyond any of his Majesty's Col...

Excerpt from A Memorial Containing Travels Through Life or Sundry Incidents in the Life of Dr. Benjamin Rush My Dear Friend - Can you bear to read a letter that has nothing in it about politics or war? I will, without waiting for an answer to this question, trespass upon your patience, by writing to you upon another subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

Excerpt from An Account of the Life and Character of Christopher Ludwick: Late Citizen of Philadelphia, and Baker-General of the Army of the United States During the Revolutionary War Lutherans. Of this school he always retain ed a grateful remembrance, as will appear in the sequel of his life. At seventeen years of age, he enlisted as a privatesoldier in the army of'the Emperor of Germany, and bore his part in the war carried on by the Aus t...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 5: Containing an Account of the Yellow Fever, as It Appeared in Philadelphia in 1797, and Observations Upon the Nature and Cure of the Gout, and HydrophobiaAgreeably to my promife made in the year 1796, I herewith offer to the public a few obfervations upon the nature and cure of the gout. They are conneEURted with a hif tory of the yellow fever as it appeared in Philadelphia in 1797, and W...

Excerpt from Letter on the Rebellion, to a Citizen of Washington, From a Citizen of Philadelphia The following Letter was written, five months ago, in the course of a friendly and familiar correspondence with a prominent and very estimable citizen of Washington. In addition to the subjoined note from Mr. Yaux, the writer was requested, and even urged, to publish the Letter, some time since, the gentleman to whom it was addressed giving his co...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4 of 4 The disease was confined chie¿y to the district of Southwark and the village of Kensington, for several weeks. In September and October, many cases occurred in the city, but most of them were easily traced to the above sources. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduc...

Excerpt from Essays, Literary, Moral and PhilosophicalRemarkable circumstances in the constitution and life of Ann Woods, an Old woman of 96 years of age, Biographical Anecdotes of Benjamin Lay, Biographical Anecdotes of Anthony Benezet, Paradise of Negro Slaves-a dream, An Inquiry into the causes of Premature Deaths, Eulogium upon Dr. William Cullen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. ...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1 of 4 IN this second edition of the follow ing Medical Inquiries and Observations, the reader will perceive many additions, some omissions, and a few alterations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the...

Excerpt from An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever: As It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793The delay of the following publi cation has been occafioned by the want of health to prepare it for the-prefs, during the winter months. It now goes forward, under the great difadvantages, of having been haftily copied from my notes, amidft frequent profefiional in terruptions. Its imperfefiions I hope will be overlooked, ...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the MindThe author has omitted referring to the books from which he has obtained some of his facts. His reason for doing so was, when he began to collect them, he did not expect to publish them, and of course did not mark the volumes and pages from which they were extracted. Since he formed that design, he has faithfully preserved references to them both. He has suppressed t...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 2 The candid reception of a small volume of Inquiries and Observations, published in the year 1788, has encouraged me to offer a second to the public, with the fame title. Three of the inquiries were published several years ago, two of them in pamphlets, and the third in the second volume of the American Philosophical Transactions. They are now republished, in their present form, at the re...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 of 4 I shall not attempt to give a definition of fever. It appears in so many different forms, that a just view of it can only be given in a minute detail of all its symptoms and states. In order to render the theory, which I am about to deliver, more Simple and intelligible, it will be. Necessary to premise a few general propositions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hun...

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Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 2 of 4Of the moral faculty, and the understanding to be the seat of the conscience. The mysterious na ture of the union of those two moral principles with the will and understanding, is a subject foreign to the business of the present inquiry.As I consider virtue and vice to consist in action, and not in opinion, and as this action has its seat in the will, and not in the conscience, I shal...

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