Dissertatio physica inauguralis, de coctione ciborum in ventriculo : quam annuente summo numine, ex auctoritate Reverendi admodum viri, Gulielmi Robertson ... nec non amplissimi senatus academici consensu et nobilissimae facultatis medicae decreto, pro gradu doctoris, summisque in medicina honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis / eruditorum examini subjicit Benjaminus Rush, A.M. Pensylvaniensis ...

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Contributor:

Robertson, William, 1753-1835.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, dedicatee.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Digestion--Early works to 1800.

Digestion.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Penn Provenance:

Pepper, William (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

University of Edinburgh. Library (donor) (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

I:R, a-st a-u- *H3t (3) 1768 (R)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgi : apud Balfour, Auld, et Smellie ..., MDCCLXVIII [1768]

Notes:

Signatures: [pi]⁴ A-D⁴ (final leaf is blank).

Inaug.--Diss.--Edinburgh, 1768.

Dedicated to Benjamin Franklin.

Printed marginal notes.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has the armorial bookplate of William Pepper on front pastedown; Culture Class Collection copy 1 was a gift of William Pepper III.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has an inscription on verso of t.p. in brown ink that reads "For Dr. Sam Duffield from his most humble servant the Author."

Culture Class Collection copy 1 bound in full red morocco; gold-tooled decorative border on boards; brief title, author, and date of imprint stamped in gilt on spine; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt.

A photocopy of Culture Class Collection copy 1 is available for public use.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 was a gift from the University of Edinburgh to the University of Pennsylvania; with a presentation slip laid in dated 18 May, 1975; and with a stamp of the University of Edinburgh on t.p. in purple ink ("Ex Libl. Univ. Edinburgen").

Culture Class Collection copy 2 bound in full red morocco, blind-tooled borders with four corner ornaments on boards; author and date of imprint stamped in gilt on spine; blind-tooled cover edges; marbled endpapers.

Cited in:

ESTC, T3307

OCLC:

57675909