Hermanni Boerhaave, phil. et med. ..., Praelectiones academicae in proprias institutiones rei medicae /

"Enumeratio editionum": v. 6, p. 113-144.

Student lecture notes on the Theory & Practice of Physic, and patient case histories, of Lyman Spalding, 1795-1799 (inclusive)

Contains notes taken by Harvard student Lyman Spalding from lectures delivered by Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) in 1795. The notes cover the history of medicine, theories of contemporary physicians like Herman Boerhaave, William Cullen, and John Brown, and topics like fetal growth, digestion, and circulation. The volume also contains six pages of patient case notes from Spalding’s medical practice in Walpole, New Hampshire, in 1799, which detail the patients’ symptoms and course of treatment he pursued. In the case of a young man who complained of pain in his breast following a wrestling match, Spalding bled him and prescribed a cathartic of soap and aloes. Spalding also operated on a man who cut off part of his ankle with an ax.

Observations Medical & Chirurgical by John Perkins, 1724-1774 (inclusive)

Volume kept by Dr. John Perkins (1698-1781) from 1724 to 1774 recording observations on various diseases and medical conditions illustrated with cases from Perkins's practice in Boston, Massachusetts. The cases ranged from epileptic fits, various fevers, and rheumatism to melancholy. His treament methods were standard for the era, mainly prescribing vomits, purges, and spirits, and bleeding patients. Also includes a section listing contradictory opinions among prominent medical writers such as Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave and English physician Thomas Sydenham. An index is located at the end of the volume. Perkins likely began compiling the book in 1765. It contains cases dating from 1724 to 1774.

Student notes from medical lectures by Benjamin Rush, undated

The volumes contain student notes on a course of medical lectures given by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) while he was Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Clinical Practice at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, likely in circa 1800-1813. The notes indicate Rush often referenced the works or teachings of contemporaries such as Scottish physicians William Cullen, John Brown, John Gregory, and Robert Whytt, and Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave. He frequently included anecdotes and case histories of his own patients, as well as those of other doctors, to illustrate his lecture topics. He also advised students to take notes on the lectures after they ended to allow them to focus on what they were hearing. Volume 1 includes notes on: physician conduct during visits to patients; human and animal physiology; voice and speech; the nervous system; the five senses; and faculties of the mind. Volume 2 includes notes on: food, the sources of appetite and thirst, and digestion; the lymphatic system; secretions; excretions; theories of nutrition; differences in the minds and bodies of women and men; reproduction; pathology; a table outlining the stages of disease production; “disease and the origin of moral and natural evil”; contagions; the role of food, drink, and clothing in producing disease; worms; hereditary diseases; predisposition to diseases; proximate causes of diseases; and pulmonary conditions. Volume 3 includes notes on: the pulse; therapeutics, such as emetics, sedatives, and digitalis, and treatment of various illnesses like pulmonary consumption, kidney disease, palsy, and rheumatism; diagnosis and prognosis of fever; treatment of intermitting fever; and epidemics including plague, smallpox, and yellow fever, with an emphasis on the yellow fever outbreaks in Philadelphia in 1793 and 1797.

Praelectiones Antonii de Haen ... in Hermanni Boerhaavii Institutiones pathologicas /

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Elementa chemiae.

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Comentaires des Aphorismes de médecine d'Herman Boerhaave sur la connaissance et la cure des maladies /

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An abridgement of Baron Van Swieten's commentaries upon the Aphorisms of ... Herman Boerhaave ... : concerning the knowledge and cure of diseases /

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An abridgement of Baron Van Swieten's commentaries upon the Aphorisms of ... Herman Boerhaave ... : concerning the knowledge and cure of diseases /

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An account of the life and writings of Herman Boerhaave ... : in two parts, with an appendix /

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Praxis medica sive commentarium in aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendis et curandis morbis.

Contiene: Vol. I - Vol. II - Vol. III - Vol. IV.

Elementa chemiae, quae anniversario labore docuit in publicis privatisque scholis Hermannus Boerhaave.

Contine con port. y pag. propias: Hermanni Boerhaave ... Opuscula omnia ...

Hermanni Boerhaave Opera omnia medica ...

Contiene: Institutiones medicae in usum annuae exercitationis domesticos ; Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis morbis in usum doctrinae domesticae / digestae ab Hermanno Boerhaave.

Aphorismi de cognoscendis et curandis febribus /

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Hermanni Boerhaave ... Praelectiones publicae de morbis oculorum ex codice M.S. editae.

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