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1. The doctrine of purgation: curiosities from ancient and modern literature : a collection of quotations on the use of purgatives, from Hippocrates, and other medical writers, covering a period of over two thousand years, proving purgation is the corner-stone of all curatives

2. Purgation, or, The Brandrethian method of treating diseases and curing them: with one and the same universal medicine, the efficacy of which has been fully tested beyond the power of malice or misrepresentation to dispute, with an attempt to explain the cause and origin of all diseases

5. Observations on the yellow fever: with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both