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Excerpt from An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of PennsylvaniaGovernor George Thomas, of the Province of Pennsylvania, wrote to the Bishop of Exeter, England, April 23, 1747. The Germans of Pennsylvania, are, I believe, three-fifths of the whole population, (whole population, They have, by their industry, been the principal instruments of raising the state to its present ¿ourishing condition, beyond any of his Majesty's Colon...

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Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 of 4AS many of the diseases which are the subjects of these volumes belong to the class of fevers, the fol lowing remarks upon their theory are intended to render the principles and language I have adopted, in the history of their causes, symptoms, and cure, intelligible to 'the reader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more ...

Excerpt from A Second Address to the Citizens of Philadelphia, Containing Additional Proofs of the Domestic Origin of the Malignant Bilious, or Yellow Fever: To Which Are Added, Observations, Intended to Shew That a Belief in That Opinion, Is Calculated to Lessen the Mortality of the Disease, and to Prevent Its RecurrenceBut our epidemic is not the Siam fever. The condition Of our city is not hopelefs. The return Of our difeafe may be prevente...

Excerpt from Sixteen Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures Upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, With a Syllabus of the Latter: To Which Are Added, Two Lectures Upon the Pleasures of the Senses and of the Mind, With an Inquiry Into Their Proximate Cause, Delivered in the University of PennsylvaniaTo'an exclusive reliance upon theory in medicine, there are an equal number of objections. I shall only mention a few of them.About t...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 of 4I shall not attempt to give a definition of fever. It appears in so many different forms, that a just view of it can only be given in a minute detail of all of its symptoms and states.In order to render the outlines of fever, which I am about to deliver, more simple and intelligible, it will be necessary to. Premise a few general propositions.I. Fevers of all kinds are preceded by gen...

Excerpt from The Family Physician: Consumptive's Guide to Health, and Lady's Medical CompanionThis book lays no claim to originality, but, based upon the works of the great Dr. Rush, its object is simply utility. With this in view, no trouble has been spared to adapt it to the present state of medical science, and render it perfect in its way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Excerpt from A Second Address to the Citizens of Philadelphia, Containing Additional Proofs of the Domestic Origin of the Malignant Bilious, or Yellow Fever: To Which Are Added, Observations, Intended to Shew That a Belief in That Opinion, Is Calculated to Lessen the Mortality of the Disease, and to Prevent Its RecurrenceBut our epidemic is not the Siam fever. The condition Of our city is not hopelefs. The return Of our difeafe may be prevente...

Excerpt from The Family Physician: Consumptive's Guide to Health, and Lady's Medical CompanionThis book lays no claim to originality, but, based upon the works of the great Dr. Rush, its object is simply utility. With this in view, no trouble has been spared to adapt it to the present state of medical science, and render it perfect in its way.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find mor...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Pernicious Effects of the Use of Ardent SpiritsThe effects of ardent spirits divide themselves into such as are of a prompt, and such as are of a chronic nature. The former discover themselves in drunkenness, and the latter, in a numerous train of diseases and vices of the body and mind.I. I shall begin by brie¿y describing their prompt, or immediate effects, in a fit of drunken ness.This odious disease for by that...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 of 4I shall not attempt to give a definition of fever. It appears in so many different forms, that a just view of it can only be given in a minute detail of all of its symptoms and states.In order to render the outlines of fever, which I am about to deliver, more simple and intelligible, it will be necessary to. Premise a few general propositions.I. Fevers of all kinds are preceded by gen...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4 of 4Life, animal i. Consists in heat, motion, sensation, and thought i. Is an e¿'ect of stimuli i. Originally involuntary i. Of external stimuli Particularly air i. Of internalstimuli i Life animal, how supported in sleep i. In the fmtus in utero i In infancy and childhood i In youth i. In middle life i. In old age i. In persons blind and deaf from their birth i. In apparent death i. In' ...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1: Four Volumes in TwoThe author of the following edition of Medical In quiries, and Observations, has changed the order in which 8t ral oi the subjects were arranged in the former editions. He has given the Lectures upon Animal Life the first place in the first volume, and has arranged the histories of Epi demies in succession to each other. Some facts have been added to several Of the Inq...

Excerpt from Sixteen Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures Upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, With a Syllabus of the Latter: To Which Are Added, Two Lectures Upon the Pleasures of the Senses and of the Mind, With an Inquiry Into Their Proximate Cause, Delivered in the University of PennsylvaniaTo'an exclusive reliance upon theory in medicine, there are an equal number of objections. I shall only mention a few of them.About t...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1: Four Volumes in TwoThe author of the following edition of Medical In quiries, and Observations, has changed the order in which 8t ral oi the subjects were arranged in the former editions. He has given the Lectures upon Animal Life the first place in the first volume, and has arranged the histories of Epi demies in succession to each other. Some facts have been added to several Of the Inq...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Pernicious Effects of the Use of Ardent SpiritsThe effects of ardent spirits divide themselves into such as are of a prompt, and such as are of a chronic nature. The former discover themselves in drunkenness, and the latter, in a numerous train of diseases and vices of the body and mind.I. I shall begin by brie¿y describing their prompt, or immediate effects, in a fit of drunken ness.This odious disease for by that...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 2The inquiry into the in¿uence of phylical caul'es on the moral faculty, and the inquiry into the influence of fpi rituous liquors upon the human body, &c., About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolo...

Excerpt from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1To whom can they look up for that proteé'tion With fo much propriety, as to the president OF the college OF phy.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preser...

Excerpt from An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of PennsylvaniaThis classical essay of Dr. Rush, taken from his works, would have appeared last year, on the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of its original publication, had it been possible for the writer to complete the annotations in time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis ...

Excerpt from An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of PennsylvaniaThis classical essay of Dr. Rush, taken from his works, would have appeared last year, on the One Hundred and Twentieth Anniversary of its original publication, had it been possible for the writer to complete the annotations in time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis ...