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.

Essais physiologiques : contenant I. des recherches sur les causes du mouvement des fluides dans les très-petits vaisseaux des animaux, II. des observations sur la sensibilité & sur l'irritabilité des parties du corps animal, à l'occasion du Mémoire de M. Haller sur ce sujet /

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An essay on the vital and other involuntary motions of animals /

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Les vapeurs et maladies nerveuses, hypocondriaques ou hystériques : reconnues & traitées dans les deux sexes /

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Traité des maladies nerveuses, hypocondriaques et hystériques /

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Traité des maladies nerveuses, hypocondriaques et hystériques /

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Observations on the nature, causes, and cure of those disorders which have been commonly called nervous hypochondriac, or hysteric : to which are prefixed some remarks on the sympathy of the nerves /

Signatures: pi⁸ A-2I⁸ K⁴.

The old farmer and his almanack; being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago, suggested by reading the earlier numbers of Mr. Robert B. Thomas's Farmer's almanack, together with curious, instructive, and entertaining, as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter,

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A poetical essay deliver'd at Commencement, July 19th, 1786

Eight-page handwritten essay written by Harvard graduate Robert Fowle for the 1786 Harvard College Commencement ceremonies. The essay begins, "While different objects crowd the inraptur'd Mind..." and contains classical illusions. The text contains struck-out words and edits.

Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...

"Directions to the binder," "Errata," and "Advertisement [announcement of v. 2]": v. 1, p. [587-588]

An account of the life of that celebrated actress,

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El dinero en la historia del pensamiento económico: la teoría monetaria postkeynesiana y su confrontación con la ortodoxia

Las disputas en torno a determinados aspectos del dinero, como su neutralidad y el carácter endógeno o exógeno de la oferta monetaria, han sido permanentes entre las distintas escuelas de pensamiento y autores, estando su origen, probablemente, en la época de desarrollo del pensamiento escolástico. En este artículo pretendemos, en primer lugar, realizar un recorrido cronológico e histórico sobre el tratamiento científico económico del dinero, para, en segundo lugar, poner sobre la mesa la macroeconomía ortodoxa a la que han dado lugar las interpretaciones al respecto, así como los enfoques alternativos frente a este pensamiento dominante. Finalmente, intentamos poner en valor los desarrollos monetarios post-keynesianos, integrados en lo que denominan “Economía Monetaria de Producción”, confrontándolos con la llamada Nueva Síntesis Neoclásica.

Curlande, Livonie, Ingrie et partie meridionale de Finlande. Par le s.r Robert de Vaugondy fils de m.r Robert geogr. ordin. du roi. Avec privilege 1749.

Janamittakaava: Lieues marines.