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New York: Printed by T. & J. Swords, 1804-1806. 8vo. xii, 434, [6-index] pages, plus one full-page plate; xii, 452, [7-index] pages; and xii, 454, [7-index and errata] pages. Contemporary full calf with red morocco spine labels. Note: The spines are numbered to reflect their overall place in the sequence of the periodical (i.e. vols. 7-9), rather than bearing the second hexade (i.e. second series) numbers. 21.5 x 14 cm. Bindings are rubbed and show a few scuffs; stain to the front cover of vol. II. Title pages are browned or foxed; frequent tanning and occasional foxing (heavy in a few places); some old marginal damping. Still a solid, good plus set. Provenance: Signature of S.H. Gunn on the front free endpaper of each volume, with that in the third volume dated 1823. Dr. James Linwood Gunn signs the second volume in several places in pencil including the title page. [James Linwood (a.k.a. Lynwood) Gunn, M.D. (1857-1906) received his medical degree at Louisville Medical College in 1877. He returned to his home state, practiced for many years at Yanceyville, and later from his rural home in Ashland.] FIRST EDITION. In addition to being a primary resource for American medical history, "The Medical Repository" contains significant information on many other aspects of life in the early Republic. Among the non-medical contents of the present volumes are EXTENSIVE REPORTS RELATED TO THE EXPLORATION OF THE LANDS ACQUIRED IN THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE, INCLUDING THE EXPEDITIONS OF LEWIS & CLARK AND PIKE. "Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchill, Senator from New York, was most active in promoting Jefferson's aims and secured much valuable information of which much, if not all, was published in his magazine, the Medical Repository" (Wagner-Camp, "The Plains and the Rockies," p. 8). The present volumes include: (in vol. I) a review of "Account of Louisiana"(1803) THE FIRST OFFICIAL REPORT ON LOUISIANA; Mitchill's report as chairman of the Congressional committee that authorized Jefferson to "cause certain remote and unknown Parts of Louisiana to be explored," in which he notes that the LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION is underway and discusses the present state of knowledge of the territory and the need for further expeditions; a communication from Thomas Sanford of Kentucky relating MAJOR PIKE S REPORT OF AUGUST 1803, in which he discusses the possibility of reaching the Pacific via the Missouri River system and trade with the Indians; a letter from Senator Smith discussing Joseph Baird s exploration of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, and a report on the Missouri River; an article claiming that the Louisiana Purchase gave the United States certain Pacific coast islands discovered by Capt. Fanning; (in vol. II) notice of a pamphlet announcing the formation of the Mississippi Society for the Acquirement and Dissemination of Useful Knowledge;" a report on Dunbar and Hunter s expedition on the Ouachita River; and (in vol. III) "Description of the Hot Spring s and Volcanic Appearances in the Country Adjoining the River Ouachita;" a further "Account of a Journey up the Washita (or Ouachita) River in Louisiana by William Dunbar, Esq. and Dr. Hunter;" Mitchill s translations of two French reports, one by Soulard on the Missouri made in March 1805, and another by Trudeau on the Upper Missouri; A DISCUSSION OF LEWIS S FORTHCOMING MAP OF LOUISIANA WITH A PREVIEW OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL FINDINGS OF THE EXPEDITION; and an extract from a letter by John Sibley providing "Some Account of the Country and Productions near the Red River." Important medical content includes Philip Syng Physick s, "A Case of the Fracture of the Os Humeri . . . " (vol. I, pp. 122-124), "THE FIRST PAPER ON ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES" (Garrison and Morton 4409.1). The illustrations include a full-page engraved plate of an "elastic-gum catheter" in vol. I; in-text woodcuts of a thresher shark, a dissection of a shark fetus, and a diagram of a still in vol. II; and an in-text woodcut. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0000904
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