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The Medical and Franklin Library of Dr. William von Valtier, Part II
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RUSH PRESENTATION COPY TO A PROMINENT BALTIMORE PHYSICIAN.
RUSH, BENJAMIN. 1746-1813.
An Account of the Bilious remitting Yellow Fever as it Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1794.

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RUSH PRESENTATION COPY TO A PROMINENT BALTIMORE PHYSICIAN.

RUSH, BENJAMIN. 1746-1813. An Account of the Bilious remitting Yellow Fever as it Appeared in the City of Philadelphia, in the Year 1793. Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1794.
8vo (208 x 124 mm). Contemporary sheep covers, rebacked to style. Covers worn and repaired, browning, erased ownership inscriptions on front paste-down.

INSCRIBED BY RUSH on the title page: "Alexander's [?] from the / Author, 1795 / Andw Wiesenthall." Andrew Wiesenthall (sometimes "Wiesenthal," 1762-1798) was a Baltimore physician and anatomist, the son of Dr. Charles Frederick Wiesenthall. He studied first in Baltimore and then in London at St. Bartholomew's hospital before returning to Baltimore. He is perhaps best known for discovering that breathing disorders in chickens and other domestic fowl (known as "the gapes") were the result of worms infecting the animals' throats. This was probably the first recorded discovery of an infectious disease being caused by an organism.

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