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Natural History & Medicine
American Ornithology, or, the Natural History of the birds of the United States
Anatomical illustrated plates
Medical Flora, or Manual of the Medical Botany of the United States of North America
Account of an earthquake from Daniel Chapman Banks, 25 November 1815
Plan for calculating the sun's rising, 11 July 1816
Letter discussing an elephant tooth found at the Falls of the Ohio, ca. 1780s
A Treatise on Cholera
Dr. James Wallace note, 1780
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 28 May 1809
Charles Caldwell letter to J. F. Leaming, 9 December 1820
Letter from Charles Wilkins Short to Daniel Drake, 17 December 1816.
Letter from Dr. Daniel Drake to Dr. Charles Wilkins Short, 10 January 1807
Magendie's Physiology medical publication, 1822
Report of the Committee, appointed to inquire into the condition of the Louisville Hospital
A brief sketch of the history of Lexington, Kentucky, and of Transylvania University
A sketch of the medical topography of Lexington and its vicinity, 1806
Remarks on Cholera, 1833
Letter from John J. Audubon to Richard Harlan, 20 March 1833
Letter from John J. Audubon to Lucy Audubon, 19 January 1827
Reminiscences of a Virginia physician
Letter from William Clark to Edmund Clark, 27 January 1809
Letter from William Clark to Jonathan Clark, 3 July 1810
Maurice Thomas Journal, January 1, 1816 - December 31, 1817
Letter from Constantine Rafinesque to Charles Wilkins Short, 17 July 1818
Letter from Constantine Rafinesque to Charles Wilkins Short, 21 December 1819
Letter from Constantine Rafinesque to Charles Wilkins Short, 20 November 1819
The Southern Cultivator, 1840
Letter from Walter Warfield to Richard Anderson, 28 February 1795
Maurice Thomas Journal, January 1, 1816 - December 31, 1817
Drawing of coffee nut tree seed pod, 1816