1. Bell, Luther V. A Dissertation on the Boylston Prize-Question for 1835: What Diet Can Be Selected Which Will Ensure the Greatest Probable Health and Strength to the Laborer in the Climate of New England?—Quantity and Quality, and the Time and Manner of Taking It, to Be Considered. Boston: D. Clapp, Jr., 1836. https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101163642-bk.
2. Bolton Valenčius, Conevery. The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land. New York: Basic Books, 2002.
3. Duffy, John. From Humors to Medical Science: A History of American Medicine. 2nd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
4. “Editorials and Medical Intelligence.” The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal 13, no. 14 (11 November 1835): 223–228. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM183511110131407.
5. Ellis, George Edward. Memoir of Luther V. Bell, M.D., LL. D.: Prepared by Vote of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Boston: J. Wilson and Son, 1863.