Selected Works
- An introductory lecture on medical education (1801)
- Observations on the Canada thistle (1810)
- Observations on the establishment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the city of New-York (1811)
- Observations on the surgery of the ancients: vindicating their claims to many of the reputed discoveries and improvements of modern times (1813)
- Observations on the advantages of exposing wounds to the air after capital operations (1813)
- Observations on vision (1813)
- Observations on the laws governing the communication of contagious diseases: and the means of arresting their progress (1815)
- Tribute to the memory of the late Caspar Wistar (1818)
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