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                 A

SYLLABUS
OF A
COURSE
OF
LECTURES
ON THE
Inftitutes of  Medicine.
                 B Y

      BENJAMIN  RUSH,

PROFESSOR OF THE INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE AND OB
   CLINICAL PRACTICE IN THE UNIVERSITY  OF
             PENNSYLVANIA.
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        § I. Of Phyfiology.


             CHAP.   I.


              Introduction.

Of Animal Life.
Of Animal Heat.
Of Refpiration.
Of the Caufes of Coughing.
               Sneezing.
               Yawning.
               Laughter,  and Crying.
Of Voice and Speech.
Of the Circulation of the Blood.
Of the Nervous Syflem.
Of Impreflion, Senfation, and Motion.
Of the Senfes.
Of the Faculties and Operations of the Mind.
Of Pleafure,  as derived from the Senfes,  and
  its Proximate Caufe.
Of 
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 Of Pleafure, as derived from the Exercifes  of
   the Mind, and of its Proximate Caufe.
 Of Sleep and Dreams*


             CHAP.   n.

 Of Aliment.
 Of Hunger.
 Of Maflication.
 OfDigeftion.
 Of the Chyle.
 Of the Blood.
 Of the La&eals and Lymphatics,
 Of the Secretions and Excretions.


            CHAP.   III.

Of the Peculiarities of the Male and Female
   Body.
Of Menflruation, Generation, Conception, and
   Parturition.
Of the different Stages of Life.
Of Health.
Of the natural and artificial Analyfis of the So^
  lids and Fluids of the Body.
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        § II.  Of Pathology.


            CHAP.   I.

              Intro du&ion.

              Of Disease.

Of the Caufes of Difeafes.
Thefe are Remote, Predifpofing, Occafional and
  Proximate.
I. Of the Remote Caufes of Difeafes.
  i. From the fenfible and infenfible Qualities
   of the Air.
  2. From Light,  Sounds, and the Influence of
   the Moon.
  3. From Aliments, Condiments, and Drinks.
  4. From Drefs.
  5. From foreign  Matters introduced into the
   Syflem, fuch as,
     a.  Contagions.
     b.  Poifons.
     c.  Worms.
     d.  Anomalous  Subflances  taken  into the
     Alimentary Canal, Lungs, Nofe, and Skin.
     e. Anomalous Subflances  applied to the
     external Surface of the Body.
     f.  Retained Excretions.
  6.  Motion and Reft, Sleep and Wakefulnefs.
  7.  The improper Exercife of the Faculties of
   the Mind, and of the Venereal Appetite.
                               8. Different 
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   8. Different Situations.
   9. —-----— States of Society.
  10. —;------Governments.
  11.--------Religions.
  12.--------Employments.
  13.--------Amufements.
  14. Peculiar Cufloms.
  15. Unhealthy Anceftors.
  16. And injudicious Confidence in the Opera-
   tions of Nature,  and in Quacks.
  17. The  imprudent or habitual Ufe  of cer-
   tain Remedies without, or by  the Advice of
   a Phyfician.
  18. Sympathy  and Antipathy.
  19. Affociation of Ideas and Motions.
  20. Time.
II. The Predifpofing Caufes of Difeafes are Na-
     tural and  Artificial.
      Thofe which arc Natural, occur in
  1. Different Ages, as in
     a. Infancy.
     b. Childhood.
     c. Puberty.
     d. Adolefcency.
     e. The Period  in which the Arterial Ple-
      thora yields to the Venous.
     f. Old Age.
  2. Different Conditions of the Syftem,  as in
     a. Different Temperaments.
     b. The different Conditions  of the Syftem
      in fingle and married Life.
     c. Pregnancy.
     d. The Period of the Ceffation of the  Men-
      fes.
                                     e. De- 
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     e. Deformity in Size,  or Configuration of
      the Whole, or of any Part of the Body.
     f. Congenial  Weaknefs of a Part,  or of
      the Whole of the Body.
Of the Predifpofing Caufes of Difeafes which
  are Artificial.
III. Of the Occafional Caufes of Difeafes.
IV. Of the Proximate Caufes of Difeafes.
     Thefe are general and partial.
i.  The general Caufes  aftecl: the  whole Body,
  directly or indirectly.                   *>
     a. Through the Medium of the Sanguife-
      rous Syftem.
     b.-----,------------- of  the Nervous
      Syftem and Mufcles.
     c.------------------of the Stomach
      and Alimentary Canal.
     d.-----------------— of the external
      Surface of the Body.
     e.------------------of the Lympha-
      tic Syftem and the Glands.
     F.------------------of the Blood.
     G.------------------• of  fecreted Flu-
      ids.
     h.------------------of the Vifcera.
     i.------------------of the Brain.
     k.--------------■----of the Mind.
   2. The partial Caufes affedl,
     a.  The Skin  and  Hair.
     B.  The Features of the Face.
     c. The Cellular Membrane.
     d.  The Trachea, Lungs, Liver, Spleen, O-
      mentum, Kidneys, and Bladder of Urine.
     e. The Heart and Blood-veffels.
                                     f. The 
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     f. The Nerves and Brain.
     g. The Senfes.
     h. The Stomach and Alimentary Canal.
     i.  The Lacteal and Lymphatic Veffels.
     K. The Glands.
     l. Certain Secretions and Excretions.
     m. The Tendons, Mufcles and Ligaments.
     n. The Bones.
     o. The Organs of Generation in both Sexes.
     p.  The Uterus.
     o^. The Texture, Situation, or Superficies
      of certain Parts of the Body.
     R. The particular Faculties of the Mind.
   3. Of the Proximate Caufe of the Phenome-
    na of Old Age.
   4. Of Death.


            CHAP.   II.

Of the Signs of Difeafes as they appear
   1. In Pain.
   2. In the Countenance.
   3. In Refpiration.
   4. In the different Pofitions of the Body.
   5. In the different States of the Faculties of
   the Mind.
   6. In the Pulfe.
   7. In the different States of the Appetite.
   8. In the different  States of the Secretions
   and  Excretions.
Of the Signs of Death. 
 
 
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