Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Benjamin Rush lecture notes

Authors

• Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813
• Bartram, Moses, d. 1791
• Overton, James
• Spangler, John
• Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817
• Curtin, Constans
• Simonton, William
• Gilder, D
• Shippen, William, 1736?-1808
• Maxwell, Robert G

Other related names

• Heydrick, Christopher, 1770-1856, transcriber
• Jackson, William, transcriber

Call number

Ms. Coll. 225
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924874693503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63615136
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/pacscl/UPENN_RBML_PUSpMsColl225

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1783-1810

Summary

Item 21, Rush lecture notes transcribed by William Jackson, Jr., 1804-1805, includes notes on the faculties of the mind--memory, imagination, understanding, will, passions, and moral faculties plus physiology (v. 1)--and differences between men and women. Also includes diseases and their treatments (v. 2).

Notes

• Forms part of: Edgar F. Smith Memorial Collection.
   

Extent

4.2 linear feet (5 boxes)

Provenance

• Gifts of Dr. Hobart A. Hare, Dr. Russell Clark Paris, Dr. John Marshall, Dr. Hulbert Agnew, Jane E. Underwood, Robert E. Spiller, and William Pepper III.
   
• Purchase, items 17-19, 1998; item 21, 2003.
   

Subjects topical

• University of Pennsylvania--Department of Medicine
• Medicine--Early works to 1800
• Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century
• Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century
• Chemistry--Early works to 1800
• Chemistry--Study and teaching--18th century

Genres

• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts, American--18th century
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Title page