m

" lllift
8ii& 
ARMY MEDICAL LIBRARY
FOUNDED 1836
WASHINGTON, D.C. 
 
 
A  SYLLABUS
OF A
'f    COURSE of LECTURES
ON THE
INSTITUTES and PRACTICE of MEDICINE,
BY
    BENJAMIN RUSH,- M. D.

PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE
    AND OF CLINICAL  PRACTICE IN
        THE UNIVERSITY OF
          PENNSYLVANIA

PHILADELPHIA
:  . <^\    ■-
  PRINTED BY THOMAS tlT & AMU EL F. Br^lJ^
     FORD, NO. 8, SOUTH FRONT-STREET.    ^~°*
               1798.

1348i 
 
A  SYLLABUS
OF  PHYSIOLOGY.
            CHAP.  I.

            INTRODUCTION.
Of animal life.
Of animal heat.
Of refpiration.
Of the caufes of coughing.
              fneezing.
              yawning.
              laughter and crying.
Of voice and fpeech.
Of the circulation of the blood.
Of the nervous fyftem.
Of impreflion, fenfation and motion.
Of the fenfes.
Of the faculties and operations of the mind.


H oc/^fg' 
(  4   ;
Of pleafure as derived from the fenfes, and its
  proximate caufe.
Of pleafure as derived from the exercifes of
  the mind, and its proximate caufe.
Of fleep and dreams.
CHAP.   II.
Of aliment.
Of hunger.
Of maflication.
Of digeftion.
Of the chyle.
Of the blood.
Of the la&eals and lymphatics.
Of the fecretions and excretions.
Of nutrition. 
(  5   )
CHAP.   III.
Of the peculiarities  of the male  and  fe-
  male body and mind.
Of menftruation, generation,  conception
   and parturition.
Of the different ftages of life.
Of health.
Of the natural and artificial analyfis of the
   folids  and fluids  of the body. 
 
PATHOLOGY.
           CHAP.   I.

          INTRODUCTION.

Of difeafe and the origin of moral and na-
   tural evil.
Of diforders and the  difference between
    them and difeafe.
Of the caufes of difeafes.
  Thefe are remote, predifpofing, occafi-
    onal and proximate.
I.  Of the  remote caufes of difeafes.
    i. From  the fenfible and  infenfible
         qualities of the air.
    2. Contagions.
    3. Poifons.
    4. Light and founds.
    5. Aliments, condiments and drinks. 
                (  8  )
  6. Drefs.
  7. Foreign matters introduced into the fyf-
      tem j fuch as,
           (A) Worms,
           (B) Anomalous fubftances taken
                into the alimentary canal,
                    lungs, nofe and (kin.
  8. Anomalous fubftances applied to the ex-
      ternal furface of the body. ♦
  9. Retained  excretions.
10. Motion and reft, fleep and watchfulnefs
      in excefs.
11. Improper exercife of the faculties of the
    mind and of the venereal appetite.
12. Different fituations.
13. - - - -   ftates of fociety.
14.....   governments.
15. . . - .   religions.
16.....   employments.
17.....   amufements.
18. Peculiar cuftoms.
19. Unhealthy anceftors. 
(  9  )
20. An injudicious confidence in the ope- i
       rations of nature, in falfe fyItems
         of medicine, and in quacks.
21. The imprudent o. habitual  ufe of re-
       medies without, or by the advice
         of a phyfician.
22. Sympathy and antipathy.
23. The influence of the moon.
24. Affociation of ideas and motions.
25. The effects of certain original difeafes
        orfymptoms of difeafes.
26. Injuries from falls, and external vio-
        lence applied to the body.
27. Submerfion,and other accidents which
        fufpend animation.
28. Time.
        The predifpofing caufes of difeafes
          are natural and artificial,
        Thofe which are natural,  occur in
          I.  Different ages, as  in,
            A.  Infancy.
            B.  Childhood.
            C.  Puberty.
                  B 
(  io   )
     D. Adolefcency  and manhood.
     E. The period in which the ar-
         terial, yields to the venous
              plethora.
     F. Old age.
 II.  In different conditions of the
       fyftem as in
     A. Different temperaments.
     B. Different conditions of the
         fyftem in fingle and marri-
              ed life.
     C. Pregnancy.
     D. The period of the  ceffation
         of the menfes.
     E. Deformity in  fize or confi-
         guration of  the whole, or
              any part of the body.
     F.  Congenial weaknefs of a part,
         or  of the  whole  of  the
              body.
Of the predifpofing caufes of difeafis
     which are artificial.
 III. Of the proximate caufes of dif-
     eafes. 
         (  »   )
Thefe are general  and partial.
    I. The general caufes affect: the
       whole body,  directly, or indi-
           rectly.
       A.  Thro* the medium of the
           fanguiferous fyftem.
       B..........- - - of the
           mind, brain, nerves and
                mufcles.
       C.  - - -.....-----of the
        ftomach and alimentary ca-
             nal.
       D.  --------------- of the
        external furfaceof the body.
       E.  - - - -........of the
           lymphatic fyftem and the
                glands.
       F.............of the
           blood.
       G.............of the
           fecreted fluids.
       H.............of the
           vifcera. 
       (   «  )                  j
  I.  Of the tranflation of difeafes   I
       to  different  parts of  the
           fame  fyftem, and  to
                different fyftems.
II. The partial caufes affect.
   A.  The Ikin and hair.
   B.  Features of the face.
   C.  The cellular  membrane.
   D.  The trachea, lungs, liver,
        fpleen, omentum, kidneys  I
             and bladder of urine.  1
   E.  The heart and blood veffels.
   F.  The nerves and brain.
   G. The fenfes.
   H. The ftomach and alimentarj
        canal.
   I.  The  lafteal and lymphatic
        veffels.
   K. The glands.
   L.  Certain  fecretions and  ex-
        cretions.
   M. Te dons, mufcles and liga-
        ments.
   N. Bones. 
      (   '3  )
   O.  Organs of  generation  of
        both fexes.
   P. The uterus.
   (^ The texture, fituation or fu-
        perficies of certain parts of
             the body.
   R. The particular faculties of
        the mind.
III. Of the proximate caufe of the
     phenomena of old age.
IV. Of death.
C  H  A  P.   I I.
Of the figns of difeafes as they appear in
  i. partial debility, indirect and direct.
  2. In pain.
  3. In the heat and coldnefs of the body.
  4. In the eyes.
  5. In the countenance.
  6. In refpiration. 
               (   '4  )
 /. In different pofitions of the body.
 8. In the different ftates of the faculies of
      the mind.
 9. Inthirft.
10. In the pulfe.
11. In the different ftates of the appetite, and
12.-------'-------of the fecretions and
     excretions.
     Of the figns  of death.
1.
2.
      THERAPEUTICS,
                 OR
    Of the method of curing difeafes.
   Of the fuppofed powers of nature in cu-
    ring difeafes.
   Of medicines which remove morbid ac-
    tion, by abstracting ftimulus from the
         difeafedpart, either direclly or in-
              directly.
3.  Of medicines which remove morbid ac-
/   tion, by excitingaftronger and healthy
         aftion in the difeafed part, or in
              fome other part of the body 
(  '5   )
4. Of medicines which remove morbid ac-
     tion in one part of the body, by exci-
         ting it in other parts lefs effential
              to life.
5. Of the remedies for preventing the re-
     currence of difeafe by removing pre-
         difpofing debility.
6. Of medicines which femove difeafes by
     abftracting redundant and foreignmat-
         ters from the body,  and which
              offend  by  their quantity or
                   quality.
7. Of medicines which remove difeafes by
     mixing with, and thus deftroying mat-
         ters which  offend by their qua-
              lity.
 8.  Of medicines which cure difeafes by re-
     moving obstructions.
 9. Of medicines which are fuppofed to cure
      difeafes by changing the quality of the
          fluids, or the texture of the fo-
               lids.
 10. Of the remedies  for relieving  pain.
 11.  Of the means of obtaining longevity. 
 
PRACTICE of MEDICINE.
          C  H A P.  I.
  *,..      —■■«■■■■■■•——
Of the method to  be obferved in vifiting
    patients.
Of the mode of examining the figns of dif-
    eafes.

          CHAP.  II.
Of general difeafes.
Of the unity of the remote and proximate
     caufes of all difeafes.
Of the different ftates of fever,  as manifef-
      ted primarily in the blood-veffels.

         States of  Fever.
        Of the malignant.
              Gangrenous
              Synocha
              Bilious 
(  18  )
States of Fever.

     Typhus
     Typhoid
     Synochoid
     Synochula
     Hectic
     Febricula
     Intermitting
     Sweating
     Fainting
     Burning
     Cold and chilly
     Inteftinal
     Pulmonary
     Anginofe
     Rheumatic
     Arthretic
     Maniacal
     Phreuitic
     Apoplectic
     Paralytic
     Lethargic
     Hydrocephalic
     Nephritic
     Hydropic
     Eruptive
     Hoemorrhagic 
(  «9   )
States of  Fever.
     Amenorrhagic
     Hcemorrhoidal
     Hepatic
     Serophulous
     Convulfive
     Opthalmic
     Odontalgic
     Otalgic
     Apthous
     Hyfterical
     Hypocondriacal
     Cutaneous
CHAP.  II.
Of other general difeafes, fee  Pathology
    Chapter I.  Seaionlll.
          CHAP.  III.
Of local difeafes and  diforders, fee Patho-
     logy Chapter I.  Section II.
Of the peculiar difeafes of women and chil-
     dren.
Of the peculiar difeafes of negroes.
Of the means of leffening the psins of death, 
 
  WZ
R^2sy
c A