HLTH 218: Experiencing and Responding to Illness and Disability: 1793-1930 (HC) [Spring 2015]: Hospitals and Benjamin Rush

Written by Benjamin Franklin, this book traces the history of the hospital from its founding through 1754.

Continues the history of the hospital through 1761.

Emlen was a doctor at the Pennsylvania Hospital.

An 1831 account of the hospital.

Includes medical notes, articles,and correspondence, 1819-1845, of Joseph Hartshorne, M.D, of interest for his innovations in surgery as well as his detailed descriptions of treatments for various ailments; and correspondence, medical papers, literary works, etc., of Joseph's son Henry Hartshorne, M.D.

Rush was an officer of the organization and the collections contains several of his letters.

Shippen was a surgeon who gave the first series of anatomy lectures in the U.S. and was a founder of the first U.S. medical school.

Ann Preston was a doctor. These letters tell of the opposition she faced and ask for information on the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania.