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.

Student notebook of Benjamin Waterhouse: 1776

Volume containing notes taken in 1776 by Benjamin Waterhouse (1754-1846) on medical lectures given in Scotland by University of Edinburgh Professor Andrew Duncan (1744-1828). The lectures focused on pathology, with attention given to secretion, absorption, nutrition, excretion, circulation, and respiration. There are also notes on common medicines and their indications and contraindications, such as emetics, cathartics, diaphoretics, and diuretics.

Map of Cambridge and Somerville, Mass

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Mīr Ḥasan Dihlavī.]

Papers of Helen Lawrence Appleton Brooks, 1822-1985

Mostly correspondence between family members, beginning with Catherine Lawrence and Charles Appleton, the parents of Helen Brooks. Also records of Brooks' voluntary activities, her diaries and personal writings, and material collected by Grace Norton about Henry James.

Empty promises : the myth of college access in America.

"June 2002."

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Ivory, Spanish, 11C; 10 35/64 in.x 10 5/16 in.x 6 3/8 in.; ivory with silver mounts

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Ivory, Spanish, 11C; 10 35/64 in.x 10 5/16 in.x 6 3/8 in.; ivory with silver mounts

A collection of letters, statutes, and other documents from the ms. Library of Corp. Christ. Coll., illustrative of the history of the University of Cambridge, during the period of the Reformation, from A.D. MD., to A.D. MDLXXII. /

Mode of access: Internet.

Fifty years' recollections of an old bookseller : consisting of anecdotes, characteristic sketches, and original traits and eccentricities, of authors, artists, actors, books, booksellers, and of the periodical press for the last half century, with appropriate selections, and an unlimited retrospect, including some extraordinary circumstances relative to the letters of Junius, and a chain of corroborative evidence respecting their author .

Mode of access: Internet.

Mathematics, compiled from the best authors, and intended to be the text-book of the course of private lectures on these sciences in the university at Cambridge.

Part of: Theodore P. Hill collection of early American mathematics books.

Catalog of the officers and students of the University in Cambridge.

Description based on: Oct. 1819.

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“Window onto Bamboo on a Rainy Day”

Gion Nankai; 4 ft. 4 41/64 in.x 1 ft. 10 53/64 in.; hanging scroll, ink on paper

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Glass, Indian, Mughal; 5 1/8 in.x 2 43/64 in.x 2 43/64 in.; glass, gilt and enameled