Lectures on medicine by Benjamin Rush, [1800?].

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Lectures on medicine by Benjamin Rush, [1800?].

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One volume (340 leaves) of notes of pathology lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture topics include the pulse, causes of disease (contagions, nutrition, poisons, foreign bodies, morals, improper use of medicine and quackery), and therapeutics.

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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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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