The works / of Thomas Sydenham, M.D. on acute and chronic diseases; with their histories and modes of cure : with notes, intended to accomodate them to the present state of medicine, and to the climate and diseases of the United States, by Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of the institutes and practice of medicine, and of clinical practice, in the University of Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Standardized Title:

Works. English. 1815

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Early works to 1800.

Medicine.

Diseases--Early works to 1800.

Diseases.

Epidemics--England--Early works to 1800.

Epidemics.

England.

Penn Provenance:

Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley), 1793-1858 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

University of Pennsylvania. Library (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

513 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Manufacture:

[Philadelphia] : W. Brown, Printer.

Other Title:

Acute and chronic diseases

Sydenham on diseases

Fingerprint:

c-ed s-ch d-nd AuBE (3) 1815 (A)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by B. & T. Kite, Johnson & Warner, E. Kimber, E. Parker, J. Richardson, and I. Pierce, 1815.

Notes:

"Dedication to the students of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania" (p. [iii]-xiv) signed: Benjamin Rush.

"The life of Dr. Sydenham" attributed to Samuel Johnson.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of John K. Mitchell, 1817.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of Library of University of Pennsylvania.

Culture Class Collection copy has underlines, marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Cited in:

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1846

Shaw & Shoemaker, 36045

OCLC:

806780149