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Medicum: Or, Medical Dictionary : Containing an Explanation of the Terms in Anatomy, Botany, Chemistry, Materia Medica, Midwifery, Mineralogy, Pharmacy, Physiology, Practice of Physic, Surgery, and the Various Branches of Natural Philosophy Connected with
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concerning the education of its students. Apart from deaf education, Akerly also researched medical cures for deafness, but due to the general state of medicine at the time, had no success.
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The Akerly family came from
Lancashire, England, and settled in Long Island by way of Connecticut. Samuel Akerly was born in May 1785 in New York City. He graduated from
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Institution for the Deaf and from 1821 to 1831, he served as the superintendent, secretary and
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517:"An Account of the Efficacy of a Salivation in the Cure of the Pulmonary Consumption; in a Letter from Dr. Samuel Akerly, to Dr. Benjamin Rush"
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Mineralogical description of the country near the Wall-kill and the Shawungunk mountains in New York
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Observations and Correspondence on the Nature and Cure of Deafness, and other Diseases of the Ears
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An Essay on the Geology of the Hudson River, and the Adjacent Regions: Illustrated by a ...
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Medical topography of the Military Positions in the third United States Military District
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