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RUSH, Benjamin (1745-1813). Six Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures, upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine, Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: John Conrad [et al.], 1801. 8 o (222 x 141mm). (Foxing, accession stamped in margins of several pages. Contemporary blue-gray paper boards, UNCUT (worn, paper spine chipped and defective). Provenance : "Lem'l Kolleck 1802," signatures on flyleaves; Duke Hospital Library, bookplate stamped "withdrawn." FIRST EDITION. Rush's lectures were "committed to the press, in consequence of promises made to many of the members of the classes" (preface), the earliest, "Of the Necessary Connection Between Observation and Reasoning in Medicine," delivered in November 1791, the last in November 1801. Austin 1682; Norman 1864. -- RUSH. Sixteen Introductory Lectures, to Courses of Lectures upon the Institutes and Practice of Medicine., with a Syllabus...Two Lectures upon the Pleasures of the Senses of the Mind. Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1811. 8 o (207 x 130mm). Half-title (very minor spotting). Contemporary mottled sheep, red morocco gilt-lettered spine label (rubbed). Provenance : James Rush, son of the author, signature dated 1849 on front pastedown; Henry S. Huch, signature and interesting marginalia in the final essay "On the Pleasures of the Mind." Incorporates and expands the previous work. Austin 1683; Norman 1866. -- RUSH. Essays, Literary, Moral & Philosophical. Philadelphia: Thomas & Samuel Bradford, 1798. 8 o (210 x 125mm). Contemporary sheep, speckled edges (very rubbed, spine largely defective). Provenance : Morris Brande, 1908, signature. FIRST EDITION of a collection of Rush's essays, mainly on social issues, advocating "temperance, abolition of slavery, prison reform, better education for girls, a comprehensive public school system, and a curriculum based on sciences and useful arts" (Norman 1863). -- RUSH. "Observations Upon the Tranquillizer," in Philadelphia Medical Museum , I (1811), pp.169-176. Philadelphia: J.& A.Y. Humphrey, 1811. 8 o (207 x 135mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Thomas Sydenham, by W.R. Jones after J. Houbraken, engraved plate of the "Tranquillizer" facing p.169 (severely browned). Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine lettered "1" (slightly rubbed). Provenance : Edward P. Taylor, signatures. First description of Rush's invention, "the most complete restraining device for controlling insane patients ever invented...Rush had long observed the pain, suffering and unsanitary conditions resulting from extensive use of the straitjacket" (Norman). Deutsch, p.79; Hunter & Macalpine, p.671; Norman 1865. (4)