Smallpox -- Vaccination
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Benjamin Rush correspondence
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/096
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a reply by Benjamin Rush and twelve other Philadelphia physicians, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees,
John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William
Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis Ouviere, and Joseph Strong, to inquiry of Thomas
Mifflin on 1797 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Rush maintains yellow fever is identical with bilious
remitting fever of warm climates, discusses source of 1797 outbreak...
Dates:
1800, undated
Photostat negatives of letters and documents relating to Benjamin Rush
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 475
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains negative photostat copies of letters and other documents relating to Benjamin Rush and his practice in the Army. Letters of Benjamin Rush to George Washington are dated February 13, 1777, May 13, 1777, and August 30, 1777. There are also two memoranda dated December 23, 1777 with photocopy of letter of J. Norcum to Washington, criticizing Rush, dated December 29, 1777. Letters from George Washington to Benjamin Rush are dated May 16, 1777, September 4, 1777, and...
Dates:
1777-1778; 1801; 1803
