Kine Pox, 1775-1802 (inclusive)

Ledger containing lists and charts of smallpox inoculation cases and patient case histories of Boston physician John Jeffries (1745-1819), recorded from November 1775 to June 1802. Descriptions include patients’ names, ages, and physical condition, method of inoculation and symptoms. The entries dated 1800-1802 are not in chronological order.

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.

State vaccination; with special reference to some principles of ancient Judaism,

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Final report. Appendix IV. Reports to the commission of Dr. Arthur Pearson Luff on outbreaks of small-pox in London in 1892-3. Appendis IX. Papers relating to cases in which death or non-fatal injury was alleged or suggested to have been caused by, or otherwise connected with, vaccination.

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An account of the varioloid epidemic, which has lately prevailed in Edinburgh and other parts of Scotland; with observations on the identity of chicken-pox with modified small-pox; in a letter to Sir James M'Grigor ...

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History and pathology of vaccination,

Vol. 2 contains reproductions of original title pages of ten of the essays.

Examen de l'inoculation /

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Disputatio medica inauguralis de variolis ... /

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Ideè generale de l'oeconomie animale et observations sur la petite verole /

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Relation du succes de l'inoculation de la petite verole dans la Grande Bretagne /

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Traitement de la petite vérole des enfans : à l'usage des habitans de la campagne, & du peuple dans les provinces méridionales ; auquel on a joint la Méthode actuelle d'inoculer la petite vérole avec des expériences faites dans la vue de constater les effets de cette méthode appliquée au traitement de la petite vérole naturelle /

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Mémoire sur l'inoculation de la petite vérole : lu a l'assemblée publique de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, le mercredi 24 avril 1754 /

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Quaestio medica quodlibetariis disputationibus manè discutienda, in Scholis Medicorum ... Anno Domini MDCCLXIII ... An in variolis narcotica? /

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An account of the method and success of inoculating the small-pox, in Boston in New-England /

Ascribed to Cotton Mather. cf. G. L. Kittredge, "Some lost works of Cotton Mather" in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1912, v. 45, p. 444-459. Cf. also T. J. Holmes, Cotton Mather, a bibliography, Cambridge, 1940, v. 1, p. 11.