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The First Medical or Scientific Publication in North America, Known from a Single Surviving Copy

1667
The Bridgeport, Connecticut edition of Thomas Vincent's tract, originally published in 1667,
Title page of the Bridgeport, Connecticut edition of Thomas Vincent's tract, originally published in 1667, with some information added by the Bridgeport printer, bringing the contents p to date. When I searched for an image of either the 1667 original printing or the 1668 very early American imprint I was unable to find any online in September 2020.

In 1667 Samuel Green, using a press in Cambridge, Massachusetts owned by the president of Harvard, Henry Dunster, printed the first medical or biological publication in North America—an edition of a London plague tract: Thomas Vincent's Gods Terrible Voice in the City of London wherein you have the Narration of the Two Late Dreadful Judgements of Plague and Fire, Inflicted by the Lord upon that City; the former in the year 1665. The latter in the year 1666. By T.V. To which is Added, the Generall Bill of Mortality, shewing the Number of Persons which Died in Every Parish of all Diseases, and of the Plague, in the Year Abovesaid. Vincent's tract had been published in London earlier in the same year. The Cambridge, Massachusetts printing is known from a single copy preserved at Harvard University. It is also probably the first publication in North America on any subject to with science.

The pamphlet was reissued in 1668 by another Cambridge, Masschusetts printer, Marmaduke Johnson. This 31 page pamphlet is known from a single copy preserved in the American Antiquarian Society.

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