?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(MEDICINE.) Transactions of the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia. Volume 1, Part 1. xxxi, 254 pages. 8vo, original boards, worn, lacking front board, rear board detached; small inked number on second leaf; uncut and partially unopened; later bookplate on rear pastedown. Philadelphia, 1793
Among the numerous contributions from Benjamin Rush are "An Account of Tetanus from the Extraction of Two Teeth, Successfully Treated by the Use of Wine and Mercury," pages 54-59; "Account of the Successful Application of Cold Water to the Lumbar Region in Calculous Cases," pages 76-79; and "An Account of a Supposed Case of Internal Dropsy of the Brain, Successfully Treated by Mercury," pages 146-150. Austin 499; Evans 25992; none known at auction since 1971.
