Shecut's Medical and Philosophical Essays: Containing: 1st. Topographical, Historical and Other Sketches of the City of Charleston, from Its First Settlement to the Present Period. 2d. An Essay on the Prevailing Fever of 1817. 2d. Ed., with Improvements. 3d. An Essay on Contagions and Infections. (2d. Improved Ed.) And 4th. An Essay on the Principles and Properties of the Electric Fluid. The Whole of which are Designed as Illustrative of the Domestic Origin of the Yellow Fever of Charleston; And, as Conducing to the Formation of a Medical History of the State of South-Carolinaauthor, 1819 - 260 sivua |
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Sivu 239 - On moving the second rod from the hip to the heel, the knee being previously bent, the leg was thrown out with such violence as nearly to overturn one of the assistants, who in vain attempted to prevent its extension.
Sivu 48 - At the commencement of the year 1813, the author submitted to a select number of his friends, the outlines of a constitution for organizing a society to be called the "Antiquarian Society of Charleston." The objects of this society were to be, primarily, the collection, arrangement, and preservation of specimens in natural history, and of things rare, antique, curious and useful, and secondarily, the promotion and encouragement of the arts, sciences and .literature generally.
Sivu 240 - The scene was hideous — several of the spectators left the room, and one gentleman actually fainted, from terror or sickness ! ! In the fourth experiment the transmitting of the...
Sivu 50 - Negociations were immediately entered into with that gentleman, by a committee of the society. The citizens were also invited to co-operate with them in effecting the purchase of this collection, towards the establishment of a respectable and scientific Museum in Charleston.
Sivu 51 - Our distinguished fellow-citizen the Hon. Thomas Sumpter, minister, resident at Brazils, has lately enriched the Museum of the society, by presenting it with an extensive, splendid and very valuable collection of minerals, birds, and insects of Chili, and the Brazils. The society are also in a very special manner indebted to the Hon.
Sivu 211 - You hear the crackling, see the sparks, and feel the electric shock. He has now acquired this faculty to so high a degree, that it depends solely on his own pleasure to make an electric spark issue from his fingers, or to draw it from any other part of his body. Thus in this electrical man...
Sivu 52 - Po1NSETr, the Hon. HENRY MIDDLETON, STEPHEN ELLIOTT, Esq. Messrs. MACLURE, CARADEAUX, and other respectable individuals, for their valuable donations of specimens in natural history, and for which, their names have been honorably mentioned in the journals of the society. . . . the society may be said to be in a flourishing condition. It consists of 138 members, many of whom are of the first standing in society, and of acknowledged literary and scientific talents. Its Museum is rich in an extensive...
Sivu 50 - The State Legislature and the City Council, alive to the importance of this object, with a promptness and liberality, which will forever redound to their credit...
Sivu 41 - January, 1778, a very extensive fire took place in Charleston, when this Library, containing between six and seven thousand volumes, comprising a valuable collection of ancient authors, with paintings, prints, a pair of elegant globes, mathematical and other instruments, and many specimens of natural history, was almost totally destroyed.
Sivu 135 - ... which they immediately issue; or near to some substances which, as having been near to the bodies of men, are imbued with their effluvia, and in which substances these effluvia are sometimes retained in an active state for a very long time.