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You are invited on a journey of discovery with the author. You will walk with him as if you were in his shoes. In this journey he discovers the earliest known US embossed pharmaceutical medicine bottle (1798-1802) and its wonderful tale of US firsts. The tale evolves into a national treasure rewriting history in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Enjoy the thrill and excitement of touching history through Dr. John Redman Coxe's wonderful accomplishments. Weaving an anecdotal first person narration, the author stresses a scientific approach to historical archaeology. The view is from Philadelphia as Dr. Coxe emerges in 1798 at 25 years of age, then moves forward and backward chronologica...
Includes a section called Medical and philosophical register.
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This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication. Six plates.
Volume 1 of 2. Full of flavor and zest, this collection of over 650 letters, two-thirds of them never printed before, is a companion piece to Rush's Autobiography. Written between 1761 and 1813, the letters trace Rush's career, from student in Scotland and England to signer of the Declaration of Independence and Philadelphia's leading physician. He writes to John Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, WItherspoon, and a host of others. Two fascinating series of letters chronicle the failures of the hospital service in the Revolutionary War and teh Philadelphia yellow-fever epidemic of 1793. Rush the private individual is revealed in the letters to his wife. Published for the American Philosophical Soci...