“
the two pamphlets. that part of his proposition which relates to the union of chemistry with domestic arts is very interesting
indeed. baking, brewing wine, vinegar, soap, butter, cheese, fixing liquors, hatching of eggs, with a long train of &c. &c.
are subjects of which the chemistry is as little known as it is of more worth in common life than all the residue of the field
of that science put together. D
r. Pennington had given us hopes that science would at length be applied to domestic use: but death put off these hopes. Th:
J. will be happy to see the school of Philadelphia engaged in what will carry the value of philosophy home to the head & heart
of every housekeeper. he prays Doct
r. Mease to accept his salutations & respect.
”
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iv. BARTON,
Benjamin Smith.
Collections for an Essay towards a Materia Medica of the United-States. Read before the Philadelphia Medical Society, on the
Twenty-first of February, 1798. By Benjamin Smith Barton, M.D. one of the Honorary Members of the Society, and Professor of Materia Medica, Natural History, and Botany, in the University
of Pennsylvania . . .
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, by
Way & Groff,
1798.
RS169 .B29
First Edition. 8vo. 29 leaves, dedication to
James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. President of the Linnean Society dated Philadelphia, March 12, 1798.
Sabin 3804. Evans 33377.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue II, ii, 126.
For a note on Barton see no. 681.
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v.
Waterhouse on Kine-Pox;
Boston,
1800.
vi.
First Report of the Vaccine Pock Institution;
London,
1800.
These two pamphlets are with the tracts on small-pox, see above.
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