Tennessee Convicts


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Military Medical and Surgical Essays


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Military hygiene and therapeutics. A. Post and W.H. Van Buren.--Control and prevention of infectious diseases. E. Harris.--Quinine as a prophylactic against malarious diseases. W.H. Van Buren.--Vaccination in armies. F.G. Smith and A. Stillé.--Rules for preserving the health of the soldier. W.H. Van Buren.--Scurvy. W.A. Hammond.--Miasmitic fevers. J.T. Metcalf.--Continued fevers. J.B. Upham.--Yellow fever. J.T. Metcalf.--Pneumonia. A. Flint.--Dysentery. A. Stillé.--Pain and anæsthetics. V. Mott.--Hemorrhage from wounds, and the best means of arresting it. V. Mott.--Treatment of fractures in military surgery. J.H. Packard.--Amputations. S. Smith.--The excision of joints for traumatic cause. R.M. Hodges.--Venereal diseases. F.J. Bumstead




On vaccinations


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The Pennsylvania-Kentucky Rifle


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Read about the rifle that was made in America by gunsmiths who migrated to Lancaster Co., Pa., from central Europe in the first half of the 18th century. This intensive study and exacting research by Kauffman has brought to light a tremendous amount of information on America's first great rifle. First printed in 1960, this book has an extensive listing of gunsmiths and the stylized work of the makers. Various rifles are identified with many photos and sketches and documentary data. (374pp. illus. index. Masthof Press, 2005 reprint.)




Mirrors of Salt: Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Anthropology of Salt


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The study of salt from an anthropological perspective provides a holistic view of its role in the evolution of human communities. Studies from around the world, ranging from prehistory to modern times, are here organized into 6 sections: theory, archaeology, history, ethnography/ ethnoarchaeology/ethnohistory, linguistics, and literature.