John Tennent

1710-1748 , physician and author

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A reprieve from death : in two physical chapters, viz. Chap. I. Objections against the use of vinegar, or other acids, to prevent or cure the epidemic and mortal fever of the West-Indies ... Chap. II. Reasons why all medicines should be freely published. With an appendix ... / By John Tennent.
John TennentDate: 1741
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An epistle to Dr. Richard Mead, concerning the epidemical diseases of Virginia, particularly, a pleurisy and peripneumony: wherein is shewn the surprising efficacy of the Seneca rattle-snake root, in diseases owing to a viscidity and coagulation of the blood. Such as pleurisies and peripneumonies, these being epidemick, and very mortal in Virginia, and other colonies on the continent of America, and also the Lee-ward islands : to which is prefixt, a cut of that most valuable plant and an appendix annexed, demonstrating the highest probability, that this root will be of more extensive use than any medicine in the whole materia medica, and of curing the gout, rheumatism, dropsy, and many nervous diseases / by John Tennent.
John TennentDate: 1742
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Truth stifled, and an appeal to the genius of the ancient Romans. Being the case of John Tennent, with respect to his free publication of his discovery of the ... efficacy of the senekka rattlesnake root, which cures ... the American epidemical fever / [John Tennent].
John TennentDate: 1741
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Physical enquiries: discovering the mode of translation in the constitution of northern inhabitants, on going to, and for some time after arriving in southern climates ... Dr. Ward's qualifications for the practice of physic ... Illustrated with remarks upon a printed letter to a member of Parliament, signed Philanthropos / [John Tennent].
John TennentDate: 1742