Extract from Dr. Rush's lectures, [after 1791].

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Extract from Dr. Rush's lectures, [after 1791].

Three volumes of lecture notes by an unidentified note-taker from Benjamin Rush's course on the institutes and practice of medicine. Topics include pathology and physiology of circulation, the nervous system, the mind, and the digestive system.

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine.

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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...