[Notes from Rush's lectures on institutes and practice of medicine, 1796-1797 / taken by John Archer].

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[Notes from Rush's lectures on institutes and practice of medicine, 1796-1797 / taken by John Archer].

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Volume 4 and 5 of a set of notes taken by John Archer on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1796-1797. Topics covered include pathology, the causes of disease, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine, particularly in the case of fevers.

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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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Archer, John, 1777-1830

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John Archer was born on 9 October 1777 in Harford Co., Md. to the prominent Maryland physician, John Archer and his wife, Catherine (Harris). Archer studied medicine under his father at his home, the "Medical Hall," and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1798. He returned to Maryland to set up private practice. During the War of 1812 he served as a surgeon in the Maryland militia. He died in Baltimore, Md. on 21 May 1830. From the description of [Notes from Rush...