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Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
Date added: 2018-08-28
1783-1810, undated
Creator:
Bartram, Moses, -1791
Curtin, Constans, 1783-1842 Hare, Robert, 1781-1858 Heydrick, Christopher, 1770-1856 Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817 Overton, James, Jr., 1785-1865 Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 Simonton, William, 1788-1846 Extent: 4.2 linear feet (5 boxes)
The Benjamin Rush lecture notes consist of 34 notebooks kept by medical students at the University of Pennsylvania, which
record the content of academic lectures delivered by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). Rush, a socially and politically prominent
physician who lived and practiced in Philadelphia, served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
from 1769 to 1813. The handwritten lecture notes in this collection (recorded between 1783 and 1810) present the era's conventional
medical wisdom on the causes, symptoms and cures of a range of diseases and disorders.
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]
Date added: 2019-05-09
1785
David Greenman notes on Materia Medica lectures delivered by Adam Kuhn at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School
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Greenman, David
Extent: 0.1 linear foot (1 volume)
This book of notes was kept by David Greenman during a course of Materia Medica lectures delivered by Dr. Adam Kuhn at the
University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1785. The lecture notes themselves are not limited to Materia Medica in the strictest
sense, in that they also include some information about physiology, pathology and therapeutics. The notebook is briefly inscribed
by Dr. Edward Cutbush (1772-1843) an officer and surgeon in the United States Navy.
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