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Notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of ye institutes and practices of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania / by Samuel F. Earl, Philadelphia, 1810.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 876
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Earl, Samuel Franklin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Physiology--Early works to 1800.
- Physiology.
- Medicine--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- lecture notes
- sketches
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Catherine Barnes (Philadelphia), 2012.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume
- Place of Publication:
- 1810.
- Biography/History:
- Medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine; did not receive a degree.
- Summary:
- Notes taken in November and December at Benjamin Rush's lectures on physiology, including attention to the circulatory, respiratory, vocal, digestive, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems. The notes are written on the recto side of leaves, with some corrections and additions in pencil in the main text and additional notes occasionally entered on facing versos. Partial bookplate for and inscription by Samuel Franklin Earl inside upper cover; sketch in pencil of a man, possibly Rush, seated behind a desk, inside lower cover.
- OCLC:
- 779542299
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