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

Title

Notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of ye institutes and practices of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania /

Authors

• Earl, Samuel Franklin
• Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

Call number

Ms. Coll. 876
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9954435123503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779542298
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3gf0n31h

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1810

Summary

Notes taken in November and December at Benjamin Rush's lectures on physiology, including attention to the circulatory, respiratory, vocal, digestive, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems. The notes are written on the recto side of leaves, with some corrections and additions in pencil in the main text and additional notes occasionally entered on facing versos. Partial bookplate for and inscription by Samuel Franklin Earl inside upper cover; sketch in pencil of a man, possibly Rush, seated behind a desk, inside lower cover.

Extent

1 volume

Provenance

• Sold by Catherine Barnes (Philadelphia), 2012.
   

Subjects topical

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

Genres

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

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 876: Notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, M.D., professor of ye institutes and practices of medicine in the University of Pennsylvania / are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

  http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

• Text

  Metadata is ©2021 University of Pennsylvania Libraries and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

  URL

  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Table of contents

• Flyleaf 2 recto — Title page
• Flyleaf 2 recto — Title page