First Complete Edition. 8vo. in fours. 232 leaves.
Sabin 74241
note.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xii, 399.
Good, page 265.
Goodman, page 388.
Jefferson’s copy was sent to him by Benjamin Rush who first mentioned the forthcoming publication of this book in a letter
to the former written on January 11, 1810: “. . . I am now engaged in publishing a Volume of introductory lectures to my Courses of lectures upon the institutes of medicine.
They will be 18 in number. Two will be subjoined to them upon the pleasures of the senses and the mind delivered every year
after considering the Senses & Mind. I shall request you to accept of a copy of them as soon as they are published. They are
upon Subjects that will be interesting I hope to private gentlemen as well as to Students and practitioners of medicine. One
of them is upon that part of medical jurisprudence which decides upon the State of mind which should disqualify a man from
being a witness in a Court of law, making a Will, and which should exempt him from punishment for criminal or felonious Acts
. . .”
Jefferson replied on January 16: “
. . . I shall recieve your proposed publication, & read it, with the pleasure which every thing gives me from your pen. altho’
much of a sceptic in the practice of medecine, I read with pleasure it’s ingenious theories . . .
”
On August 17, 1811, Jefferson wrote from Poplar Forest to Rush: “
. . . I know that within that time I have recieved one or more letters from you, accompanied by a volume of your introductory
lectures, for which accept my thanks. I have read them with pleasure and edification, for I acknolege facts in medecine as
far as they go, distrusting only their extension by theory . . .
”
The first six lectures in this collection are reprints of the publication of 1801. See no. 979.
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Rush’s Medical enquiries. 2
d. & 4
th. vols.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 41. no. 76, as above.
RUSH,
Benjamin. [font
sic--
Ed.]
Medical Inquiries and Observations. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. . . Volume II. A New Edition.
Philadelphia: Printed by
Thomas Dobson,
1797.--
Medical Inquiries and Observations: containing an account of the Bilious remitting and intermitting Yellow Fever, as it appeared
in Philadelphia in the year 1794. Together with an Inquiry into the Proximate cause of Fever; and a Defence of Bloodletting
as a remedy for certain diseases. By Benjamin Rush . . . Volume IV.
ib.
1796.
R117 .R95
8vo. Vol. II, 178 leaves, the last with publisher’s advertisement; vol. IV, 136 leaves.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, xii, 398.
Good, page 263.
Goodman, page 386.
This is the
first edition of vol. IV. The first edition of vol. II appeared in 1793.
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Young’s Physiology.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 42. no. 79, as above.
YOUNG,
Joseph.
A new physical system of astronomy; or, An attempt to explain the operations of the powers which impel the planets and comets
to perform eliptical revolutions round the sun, and revolve on their own axis: in which, the physical system of Sir Isaac
Newton, is examined, and presumed to be refuted. To which is annexed, a
