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A collection of books and manuscripts relating to early American Medicine and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, including HOSACK, DAVID. 14 published works, as follows: An Inaugural Discourse Delivered at the Opening of Rutgers Medical College. New York: 1826. Contemporary linen and boards, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED on verso of second page of preliminaries "The Hon. John Grigg. Report of the University. His friend, D. Hosack," and also inscribed "The Hon John Grigg" on the upper cover in the author's hand. * An Introductory Lecture on Medical Education. New York: 1801. * A Case of Anthrax. [New York: 1809]. * A Statement of Facts Relative to the Establishment and Progress of the Elgin Botanic Garden. New York: 1811. * Hortis Elginensis, or a Catalog of Plants ... in the Elgin Botanic Garden. New York: 1811. * Case of Aneurysm of the Femoral Artery. New York: 1812. * A System of Practical Nosology. New York: 1818. * Observations on Febrile Contagion, and the Means of Improving the Medical Police of the City of New-York. New York: 1820. * A System of Practical Nosology. New YorK: 1821. * An Inaugural Address Delivered Before the Medical Society of the County of New-York. New York: 1824. * An Inaugural Discourse Delivered Before the New-York Horticultural Society. New York: 1824. * Essays on Various Subjects of Medical Science. New York: 1824. 3 volumes. INSCRIBED by the author to "His Escellency Mr. Buchanan" (possibly James Buchanan then a member of the House of Representatives). * Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic. Philadelphia: 1838. WITH: HOSACK, ALEXANDER EDDY. A Memoir of the late David Hosack, M.D.. [New York: 1835]. Contemporary limp boards. * ---. History of the Case of the Late John Kearny Rodgers, M.D. New York: 1851. * RODGERS, J. KEARNY. A group of 11 Autograph Letters Signed, to Miss Mary R. Nicholson, various locations, c.1820s, along with a travel journal of M.R. Nicholson and a small ledger of essays and verses dated 1865. * [ANON.] Catalogue of the Entire Medical Library of the Late Doctor David Hosack. * New York: 1867. * RUSH, BENJAMIN. An Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physic. New York: 1813. * ANDERSON, ANDREW. A Dissertation on the Eupatorium Perfoliatum. New York: 1813. Publisher's wrappers. Heavily chipped. * BECK, T. ROMEYN. On the Utility of Country Medical Institutions. Albany: 1825. * ---. Transactions of the The Medical Society of the State of New York for the Year 1829, with The Annual Address by T. Romeyn Beck, M.D. Albany: 1829. * [Another, as above, for 1830] * HAMILTON, FRANK HASTINGS. Eulogy on the Life and Character of Theodoric Romeyn Beck. Albany, 1856. * VAN DEUSEN, E.H. A Biographical Sketch of T. Romeyn Beck, M.D. New York: 1856. * SEWALL, THOMAS. Lecture delivered at the Opening of the Medical Department of the Columbian College. Wasington, DC: 1826. * BELL, JOHN and D. FRANCIS CONDIE. All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera. Philadelphia: 1832. Contemporary boards. * FRANCIS, JOHN W. Annual Discourse Before the New-York Academy of Medicine. New York: 1847. * DAVIS, N.S. History of Medical Education and Institutions in the United States. Chicago: 1851. * Laws and Regulations of American Medical Association. Philadelphia: 1855. Publisher's cloth. * HUNTINGTON, ELISHA. An Address on the Life, Character and Writings of Elisha Bartlett, M.D. Lowell, MA: 1856. Publisher's cloth. * FRANCIS, VALENTINE MOTT. A Thesis on Hospital Hygiene. New York: 1859. Publisher's cloth. * HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL. "The Medical History of Massachusetts" In: Lectures ... on Subjects Relating to the Early History of Massachusetts. Boston: 1869. * ADAMS, JOHN GLOVER Discourse Commemorative of the Life and Character of Alex Hodgdon Stevens, M.D.. New York: [1871]. Contemporary cloth * [ANON]. Memorial of Edward B. Dalton, M.D. New York: 1872. Contemporary cloth. * CHAPIN, C.V. The Sympathetic Nerve. Its Relation to Disease. Providence, RI