Medical notes, 1785-1786.

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Medical notes, 1785-1786.

Notes on lectures, recipes, medical texts, including notes on Benjamin Rush's lectures on the Theory and practice of physic, Prescriptions for cases in the Pennsylvania Hospital, Adam Khun's lectures on the diseases of children and Joseph Black's lectures at the University of Edinburgh.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6777219

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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...

Black, Joseph, 1728-1799

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Professor of chemistry and medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland. From the description of Joseph Black papers, circa 1785. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131907 British chemist and physicist. From the description of Chemistry, undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 32288659 Joseph Black, Scottish chemist and physician. Best known for his experiments and discoveries with regard to heat and the properties of gasses, Black was a partner and longtime frie...

Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817

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Dr. Adam Kuhn was a physician. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1806, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155886088 ...

Martin, William, 1765-1796.

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William Martin was a Philadelphia physician who attended the University of Pennsylvania. From the description of Medical notes, 1785-1786. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122584852 M.B., U. of Pennsylvania Medical School,(1786); physician, Georgetown, Va. and Chester, Pa.; Justice of the Peace, Delaware Co., Pa.; died of yellow fever while providing treatment of the crew of a British ship. From the description of Papers, 1757-1796. (Univ...