Student notebook of John Tufts, 1705

Small vellum-covered notebook containing handwritten transcriptions copied by Harvard undergraduate John Tufts from two Harvard textbooks. The notebook is divided into two sections with the first, numbered 1-100, containing an English transcription of "Compendium of Logick" compiled by William Brattle, and the second, numbered 1-66, containing an untitled Latin transcription of Charles Morton's "Compendium Physicae." The flyleaf is inscribed "John Tufts His Book 1705."

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.

Life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough,

Mode of access: Internet.

The correspondence of Lieut. Governor John Graves Simcoe, with allied documents relating to his administration of the government of Upper Canada.

On cover: The Simcoe papers.

Voyage à la Nouvelle Galles du Sud : a Botany-Bay, au Port Jackson en 1787, 1788, 1789 /

MTSD 0377.

The life of John Sharp, D.D., Lord Archbishop of York, to which are added, select original, and copies of original papers, in three appendixes, collected from his diary, letters, and several other authenic testimonies,

Mode of access: Internet.

The critical period of American history, 1783-1789.

Bibliography: p. [351]-356.

A monograph on the Rev. Israel Evans, A.M., chaplain in the American army during the entire revolutionary war, 1775-1783, the second settled minister of Concord, New Hampshire 1789-1797,

Mode of access: Internet.

A monograph of the Rev. Israel Evans, A.M., chaplain in the American army during the entire Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 : the second settled minister of Concord, New Hampshire, 1789-1797 : delivered at the sixtieth annual meeting of the Concord Congregational Union, held with the church at Penacook, N.H., Thursday, October 30, 1902 /

Reprinted from the Granite monthly, Nov. 1902, v. 23, no. 5.

[The works of John Sharp].

Without collective title; each vol. has separate t. p.; imprint varies.

Memoirs of the Rev. John McDowell, D.D., and the Rev. William A. McDowell, D.D.

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of John Jay: with selections from his correspondence and miscellaneous papers.

Portrait wanting.

The letters and dispatches of John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, from 1702-1712. /

Mode of access: Internet.

History of the French Revolution, from 1789 to 1814 /

Includes index.

A new dictionary of the Italian and English languages : based upon that of Baretti / compiled by John Davenport and Guglielmo Comelati.

Mode of access: Internet.