Fever

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Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine.

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Two volumes of notes taken by Jacob Jeanes on the beginning lectures by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine delivered in the winter session of 1821-1822. Vol. 1 (225 pages) contains lectures on fevers. Vol. 2 (251 pages) contains lectures on hemorrhages and diseases of the digestive system. Vol. 2 also bears note “corrected in the winter of 1822-1823” and has many pencil annotations.

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One volume of an incomplete set of notes taken by Griffith when he was a student in Chapman’s lectures. An added title page for the volume reads "Practice of Physick, vol. 1st, 1818." Contains lectures on the practice of medicine (leaves [1]-6), and the first part of diseases of the circulatory system, "of fevers," (leaves 7-[10]) and intermittent fevers (leaves [11] through 42). The remaining leaves, about two-thirds of the volume, are blank.

Scope and Contents This small collection of W. W. Gerhard's papers, 1834-1845, documenting his education and early career, contains letters received and sent, some correspondence of his brother, lawyer Benjamin Gerhard, and a few receipted bills and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection is composed of letters sent to Gerhard, 1834-1837, from colleagues, many of whom studied with him in Paris, The letters, several in French, describe medical student life and conditions there. Included are letters from...