Six introductory lectures, to courses of lectures, upon the institutes and practice of medicine, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania. / By Benjamin Rush ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sydenham, Thomas, 1624-1689.

Sydenham, Thomas.

Medicine.

Medicine--Practice.

Penn Provenance:

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 1)

Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 1)

Goddard, Dr. (inscription) (RBC copy 1)

Redman, Mary (autograph) (RBC copy 1)

Hun, Thomas (bookplate) (RBC copy 2)

Physical Description:

168 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Published by John Conrad, & co. no. 30, Chesnut-street, Philadelphia: M. & J. Conrad, & co. no. 144, Market-street, Baltimore; and Rapin, Conrad, & co. Washington city: H. Maxwell, printer, 1801.

Contents:

On the necessary connection between observation and reasoning in medicine, delivered November 7th, 1791.

On the character of Doctor Sydenham, delivered December 9th, 1793.

On the causes of death, in diseases that are not incurable, delivered November 26th, 1798.

On the influence of physical causes in promoting an increase of the strength and activity of the intellectual faculties of man, delivered November 18th, 1799.

On the vies and virtues of physicians, delivered November 2d, 1801.

Upon the causes which have retarded the progress of medicine, and the means of promoting its certainty and greater usefulness, delivered November 3d, 1801.

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker 1274

OCLC:

4627436