97
Tracts in medicine.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 42. no. 82, as above.
1831 Catalogue, page 86. no. J. 105: Tracts, viz: Rush’s Introductory Lectures, 8vo; Phila. 1801.--Rush on the Effects of
Ardent Spirits upon the Mind and Body, 12mo; Phila.--Rush on the Laws of Vital Matter, 8vo; Phila. 1804.--Griffiths on Ophthalmia,
8vo; Phila. 1804.--Ffirth’s Treatise on Malignant Fever, 8vo; Phila. 1804.--Vaughan’s History of the Autumnal Fever in Wilmington,
in 1802, 8vo; Wilmington, 1803.--Sir John Sinclair on Longevity, Eng. Fr. 8vo; Lond. & Paris, 1802.
i. RUSH,
Benjamin.
Six Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures, upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, delivered in the University
of Pennsylvania. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of Medicine in the said University.
Philadelphia: Published by
John Conrad, & Co., Philadelphia;
M. & J. Conrad, & Co.,
Baltimore; and
Rapin, Conrad, & Co.,
Washington City:
H. Maxwell, printer,
1801.
R117 .R965
First Edition. 8vo. 84 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 Rush on November 27, 1801: “
Accept much honoured & dear Sir of a Copy of the enclosed publication . . .”
Jefferson’s reply, from Washington, December 20, 1801, indicates the title of the enclosure: “
I have recieved your favor of Nov. 27, with your introductory lectures which I have read with the pleasure & edification I
do every thing from you . . .
”
It was in a postscript to the above quoted letter of November 27, 1801, that Rush erroneously credited Jefferson with the
invention of the word
Vaccination: “P.S.
Vaccination as you have happily called it, has taken root in our city, and will shortly supersede the Old mode of Inoculation . . .”
The word had been in use for some time before this date.
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ii. RUSH,
Benjamin.
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind. With an Account of the Means of Preventing, and
of the remedies for curing them. By Benjamin Rush, M.D. Professor of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. The
Fourth Edition with additions.
Philadelphia: Printed for
Thomas Dobson,
Archibald Bartram, printer, n.d.
RM426 .A3 R9
Sm. 8vo. 26 leaves, the last a blank.
The date of the first edition of this frequently reprinted tract is not known. It was probably originally printed in Philadelphia,
and would therefore ante-date the first known edition, Boston, 1790.
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iii. RUSH,
John.
Elements of Life, or, The Laws of Vital Matter. By John Rush, M.D. Honorary Member of the Philadelphia Medical Society, and of the Cliosophic Society of Nassau College . . .
Philadelphia: Printed by
Thomas and George Palmer,
1804.
