The Dry-Gripes
Thomas Cadwalader's essay on the colic of the West Indies — caused, as he rightly suspected, by lead in the stills that made Caribbean rum — is the first medical treatise written and published in the colonies, and Franklin printed it. Six years later Cadwalader would sign the Pennsylvania Hospital's first promissory notes, printed on the same press; he taught the generation of physicians before Rush.
Medicine and printing in Philadelphia, on one title page, in the year they first met.
[Cadwallader, Thomas] An Essay on the West-India Dry Gripes; with the Method of Preventing and Curing that Cruel Distemper. To which is added An Extraordinary Case in Physick
The first medical treatise written and printed in America, on the colic caused — as Cadwalader rightly suspected — by lead in the stills that made Caribbean rum. Cadwalader would sign the Pennsylvania Hospital's first promissory notes six years later and teach Rush's generation; in 1745 he was a young physician and Franklin was his printer.