Rush, Benjamin
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1745 - 1813
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Rush correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/096
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a reply by Benjamin Rush and twelve other Philadelphia physicians, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees,
John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William
Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis Ouviere, and Joseph Strong, to inquiry of Thomas
Mifflin on 1797 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Rush maintains yellow fever is identical with bilious
remitting fever of warm climates, discusses source of 1797 outbreak...
Dates:
1800, undated
College of Physicians Early Records
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/001-02
Overview
The College of Physicians Early Records document some of the College of Physicians' earliest activities, including attempts by Fellows to diagnose and treat the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. The collection, which was discovered by chance in 2001 by College foreman Leroy Green, contains letters, manuscripts, and committee reports. Founded in 1787, the College assembled prominent Philadelphia physicians "to advance the science of medicine and to thereby lessen human misery." The...
Dates:
1788-1847; 1889; 2001
Daniel J. Swinney papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/085
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Daniel J. Swinney's student lecture
notes and related papers, recipe book, daybook, and vaccination
records, 1808-1827, documents the education and early medical
career of an obscure country physician during the early 19th
century.The collection is divided into two series. Series 1 concerns
Swinney's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania,
1808-1809, and includes a receipt for his 1808-1809 session
fee; an 1809 copy of Benjamin Rush's...
Dates:
1808 - 1827
George F. Lehman notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Item
Identifier: 10a 239
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine.
Dates:
1810 - 1811
Jonathan Archer notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: 10a 453
Scope and Contents
Volume 4 and 5 of a set of notes taken by John Archer on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1796-1797. Topics covered include pathology, the causes of disease, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine, particularly in the case of fevers.
Dates:
1796 - 1797
Samuel Coates letter to Joseph Paschall
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/002
Scope and Contents
Autograph letter signed from Samuel Coates in Philadelphia to Joseph Paschall, 25 Sept. 1793,
describing family matters, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1793, and conditions in city during yellow fever
epidemic. Coates lists acquaintances who are recovering, ill, or dead and mentions treating the disease
with specific of Benjamin Rush.
Dates:
1793