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BY BENJAMIN RUSH, M. D.
PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE,AND OF CLINICAL PRACTICE, IN THE UNIVERSITYOF PENNSYLVANIA.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
THE SECOND EDITION,
REVISED AND ENLARGED BY THE AUTHOR.
PHILADELPHIA,
PUBLISHED BY J. CONRAD & CO. CHESNUT-STREET, PHILADELPHIA;M. & J. CONRAD & CO. MARKET-STREET, BALTIMORE; RAPIN,CONRAD, & CO. WASHINGTON; SOMERVELL & CONRAD, PETERSBURG;AND BONSAL, CONRAD, & CO. NORFOLK.
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1805.
In this second edition of the followingMedical Inquiries and Observations, thereader will perceive many additions, someomissions, and a few alterations.
A number of facts have been added to theInquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spiritsupon the Body and Mind, and to the Observationsupon the Tetanus, Cynanche Trachealis,and Old Age, in the first volume;also to the Observations upon Dropsies,Pulmonary Consumption, and Hydrophobia,contained in the second volume.
The Lectures upon Animal Life, whichwere published, a few years ago, in a pamphlet,[iv]have received no other additions thana few notes.
The phænomena of fever have not onlyreceived a new title, but several new termshave been adopted in detailing them, chieflyto remove the mistake into which the use ofDr. Brown's terms had led some of the author'sreaders, respecting his principles. Anew order has likewise been given, andsome new facts added, to the inquiry uponthis subject.
In the Account of the Yellow Fever of1793, many documents, interesting to thepublic at the time of their first publication,are omitted; and many of the facts and observations,which related to the origin of thefevers of 1794 and 1797, now form a partof a separate inquiry upon that subject, inthe fourth volume.
The histories of the yellow fever as epid