1Benjamin Vaughan’s Notes on Climate Change, March 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
NB. There is something in the averages of the snow in p. 5. which perhaps requires revision. The temperature of the springs in Kennebec has been given by a “friend” higher than the truth. The Abbé Du Bos in his work on Criticisms &ca from some slender passages (easily explained away,) first endeavored to shew that there was an amelioration of climate since the times of the antients, as regards...
2Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 6 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I arrived here on the evening of the 4 th and was prepared on the 5 th to wait on D r Physick ; but I learned from my brother & D r P ’s deputy for attending his patients, that D r
3Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
After a little excursion, I returned to this city yesterday, & found that D r Physick still continued unable to see me; but I have the pleasure to send his opinion, taken from his lips by the only person allowed to have access to him upon business. It is to the following effect. ‘ D r P. has seen several cases analogous to that in question, in elderly people; particularly if of a gouty...
4Benjamin Vaughan to Thomas Jefferson, 21–22 April 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
{ Philadelphia , April 21, 1819. Bordentown, N.J. April 22. I have taken the liberty to send you, through M r J. Q. Adams , a tin box containing D r Physick ’s prescription for the cutaneous application, as mentioned in my letter . The
5Benjamin Vaughan to Martha Jefferson Randolph, 23 June 1819 (Jefferson Papers)
I presume to send you the inclosed, the writer of which seems to wish to put the religious party on his side.— A new attack has been made on vaccination by a certain D r Brown in Scotland ; but the sum total of it is, want of candor in argument, & the use of spurious kine pox in practice. D r Jenner , D r