First Edition. 8vo. 58 leaves.
Sabin 74225.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xii, 399.
Good, page 267.
Goodman, page 386.
Jefferson’s copy was a presentation from Dr. Rush, who wrote on December 6, 1805 from Philadelphia: “I have the honor to enclose you, with this letter, two pamphflets upon the yellow fever.--One of them for yourself, and the
Other to be sent to the Chairman, or any other active member of the committee appointed to consider of that part of your message
which relates to the Quarantine laws of the United States . . .”
On a preliminary leaf of the book is the statement that
the following sheets are extracted from the second edition of the author’s Medical Inquiries and Observations . . .
The article appears in vol. IV of the
Medical Inquiries and Observations
, of which the second edition had been published in Philadelphia earlier in the same year, 1805.
Benjamin Rush, 1745-1813, Philadelphia physician, and one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Rush studied medicine in Edinburgh,
London, and Paris before returning to Philadelphia in 1769, where he played a most distinguished and important part in fighting
the various epidemics of yellow fever in that city. He was a close friend of Jefferson and in constant correspondence with
him. In a letter to Thomas Cooper, written on October 7, 1814 Jefferson described him as “
my friend Rush, whom I greatly loved; but who has done much harm, in the sincerest persuasion that he was preserving life
and happiness to all around him.
”
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Macbride’s experimental essays.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 56, as above.
MacBRIDE, David.
Experimental Essays on the following Subjects: I. On the Fermentation of Alimentary Mixtures. II. On the Nature and Properties
of Fixed Air. III. On the respective Powers, and Manner of Acting, of the different kinds of Antiseptics. IV. On the Scurvy;
with a Proposal for trying new Methods to prevent or cure the same, at Sea. V. On the Dissolvent Power of Quick-Lime. Illustrated
with Copper-Plates. By David Macbride, Surgeon.
London: Printed for
A. Millar,
1764.
Q157 .M17
First Edition. 8vo. 144 leaves, 2 folded printed tables, 4 folded engraved plates; the penultimate leaf has a list of Errata, on
which, in the Library of Congress copy, is an additional list pasted down.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue, I, viii, 470.
David Macbride, 1726-1778, Irish chemist, physician and medical writer.
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Facts on the pestilential fever of Philadelphia, by the Coll. of Physicians.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 40. no. 60, as above, with the reading
College.
Facts and Observations relative to the Nature and Origin of the Pestilential Fever, which prevailed in this City, in 1793,
1797, and 1798. By the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia: Printed for
Thomas Dobson.
1798.
RC211 .P5 C7
First Edition. 8vo. 26 leaves; the text ends on page (27), sig. D
2 recto, and is followed by the Appendix, with continuous signatures and pagination.
The text is signed by John Redman, President of the College, and Thomas C. James, Secretary, Philadelphia, December 24, 1798.
The copy in the Library of Congress from which the above collation was taken has the autograph signatures of Wm. Currie and John Redman Coxe.
On January 20, 1806, Caspar Wistar sent to Jefferson, on behalf of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a pamphlet containing
Additional Facts & Observations relative to the Pestilential Fever
.
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