Six introductory lectures, to courses of lectures, upon the institutes and practice of medicine, delivered in the University of Pennsylvania / By Benjamin Rush.

Philadelphia : Published by John Conrad, & Co. no. 30, Chestnut-street; Philadelphia : M. & J. Conrad, & co. no. 144, Market-street; Baltimore : And Rapin, Conrad, & Co; Washington City : H. Maxwell, printer, 1801.

168 pages ; (8vo)

On the necessary connection between observation and reasoning in medicine, delivered November 7th, 1791.--On the character of Doctor Sydenham, delivered December 9th, 1793.--On the causes of death, in diseases that are not incurable, delivered November 26th, 1798.--On the influence of physical causes in promoting an increase of the strength and activity of the intellectual faculties of man, delivered November 18th, 1799.--On the vices and virtues of physicians, delivered November 2d, 1801.--Upon the causes which have retarded the progress of medicine, and the means of promoting its certainty and greater usefulness, delivered November 3d, 1801.

Austin 1682

Copy 1 Note: Bound with: same author's Three lectures upon animal life, 1799.