Medicine in the Americas, 1610-1914

The NLM has created a digital bookshelf of materials on this subject, at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/americas/americashome.html, which includes a digitised facsimile of Directions for preserving the health of soldiers, by Benjamin Rush (1808), the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act, and a book about the "asylum for the insane" established by the Society of Friends at Frankford, near Philadelphia.