Notes from lectures by Benjamin Rush, 1809-1810.

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Notes from lectures by Benjamin Rush, 1809-1810.

Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine. There are two sets of notes on the practice of medicine; one set of notes is in the form of questions.

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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine.

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Shippen, Joseph Galloway, 1783-1857

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Joseph Galloway Shippen was born in Chester County, Pa., in 1783 to Joseph and Jane (Galloway) Shippen. He was raised in Lancaster County, Pa. In 1810 he received an M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1814 he married Anna Maria Buckley. Shippen died in 1857. From the description of Notes from lectures by Benjamin Rush, 1809-1810. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122347578 ...