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.

Kitāb Sullam al-ʻulūm wa-ḥāshiyatihi al-mashhūrah bi-al-Qāḍī maʻa minhīyātih

[Muḥibb Allāh ibn ʻAbd al-Shakūr al-Bihārī].

Hādhā kitāb Maṭāliʻ al-anẓār

li-Ab�� al-Thanāʼ Shams al-Dīn ibn Maḥmūd ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī. Maʻa matnihi Ṭawāliʻ al-anwār / li-ʻAbd Allāh ibn ʻUmar al-Bayḍāwī. wa-bi-hāmishihimā Ḥāshiyat al-Sayyid al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī.

Hādhihi Tarjamat quṭb al-wāṣilīn wa-ghawth al-sālikīn al-ʻārif billāh Sayyidī Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Ab�� al-Maḥāsin al-Qāwuqjī al-Ḥasanī

min qalam ʻAbd al-Qādir al-Adʹhamī al-Ṭarābulusī.

Hadhā kitāb ʻAqāyid al-Shīʻah

bi-ihtimām-i Muḥammad Ḥusayn Khvānsārī.

Hādhā kitāb Sirr al-layāl fī al-qalb wa-al-ibdāl

taʼlīf Aḥmad Fāris al-mulaqqab bi-al-Shidyāq.

Hādhā kitāb al-Simṭ al-ʻabqarī fī sharḥ al-ʻIqd al-jawharī fī al-farq bayna kasbay al-Māturidī wa-al-Ashʻarī

al-matn min muṣannafāt al-Shaykh Khālid Ḍiyāʼ al-Dīn ; wa-al-sharḥ min muʼallafāt al-muḥaqqiq al-almaʻī wa-al-mudaqqiq al-lawzaʻī ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥamdī Afandī al-Kharpūtī, al-shahīr bi-Ibn shāriḥ al-Burdah.

Kitāb Hadīyat al-aḥb��b wa-minḥat al-khullān wa-al-aṣḥāb

li-Muḥammad al-Qāwūqjī al-Ṭarābulusī al-Shāmī al-shahīr bi-Ab�� al-Maḥāsin.

Hādhā kitāb Qiṣaṣ al-ʻulamāʼ

min taʼlīfāt al-ʻālim al-fāḍil al-kāmil nukhbat al-ʻulamāʼ wa-al-mujtahidīn al-Mīrzā Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Tunukābunī.

Kitāb al-Arbaʻīn ʻan arbaʻīn min arbaʻīn li-arbaʻīn fī arbaʻīn / taʼlīf al-Imām al-Ḥāfiẓ Muḥaddith al-Shām Nāṣir al-Sunnah afḍal al-Mutaʼakhkhirīn awḥad al-ʻUlamāʼ ʻAlī ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Hibat Allāh ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAsākir al-Dimashqī al-Shāfiʻī : manuscript, 1287

Written in one column, from 17 to 23 lines per page, in black.

Kitāb Maṭālib ahl al-qurbah fī sharḥ duʻāʼ Ab�� Ḥarbah / taʼlīf al-Shaykh al-ʻĀlim al-ʻĀmil al-ʻAllāmah al-Muḥaqqiq al-Mudaqqiq al-Fahhāmah al-Sayyid Badr al-Dīn Ḥusayn ibn al-Sharīf ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn ʻAlī al-Ahdal : manuscript, 1714

Foliated 1-442. Missing f. 441.