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Title: Notes on venereal disease; Venereal disease
Identifier(s): text:333682
Subject: Medical education; Communicable diseases; Sexually transmitted diseases; Rheumatism; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837
Date: undated; 2019

Title: The dreadful earthquake and the fatal spotted fever. A funeral sermon and a funeral Psalm, on the death of about ten or fifteen thousand of people killed by an earthquake on the twenty-sixth of March 1812, in South America: and on the death of an hundred and fifty killed in New-Hampshire it is expected in the same year, by the Spotted Fever. Written by Jonathan Plummer, a latter-day prophet, lay-bishop, travelling preacher, physician, poet and trader
Identifier(s): text:1213; local: APSimg6704; local: 340
Description: Among his insights in this document, Jonathan Plummer claims that a "vile book" written by "the infamous drunkard" Thomas Paine insulted God and was therefore responsible for outbreaks of fever in Philadelphia and an earthquake in South America.; Paine 73 P73d. Oversized box 2.
Creator: Plummer, Jonathan, 1761-1819et al
Subject: Broadsides; Broadside Class: Science; Broadside Division: "Pseudo Science"; Broadside Subdivision:; Pseudo science; Earthquakes; Communicable diseases; Prophecy; Paine, Thomas, 1737-1809
Date: ca. 1812

Title: Page proofs of Cullen's Practice of Physic; Page proofs, cont'd
Identifier(s): text:332942
Description: Pages 241-320; 345-352.
Subject: Medicine; Medical education; Scarlatina; Scarlet fever toxin; Epidemics; Communicable diseases; Plague; Erysipelas; Sweating-sickness; Hemorrhage; Proofs (Printing); University of Pennsylvania--Faculty; Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
Date: undated; 2019