On the principle of vitality. A discourse delivered in the First Church in Boston, Tuesday, June 8th, 1790. Before the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

by Benjamin Waterhouse

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Boston: printed by Thomas and John Fleet, 1790. 8vo, pp. 4 , 24, 4 ; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; trimmed and a bit toned; all else very good. With leaf of appendix and list of members at the end, among whom Elbridge Gerry, Robert Treat Paine, and Paul Revere. Waterhouse 1754-1846 was a native of Newport, Rhode Island, and studed in both London and Edinburgh, and lived with John Adams in Leyden, and was later a professor of physic at Harvard. As

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