SNEDEN SAMUEL Notes on Rush Transcribed by Samuel Sneden for

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SNEDEN, SAMUEL. Notes on Rush: Transcribed by Samuel Sneden, for Charles Vail. manuscript, written in disciplined copperplate hand in brownish-black ink on wove paper watermarked J M. 175 leaves, including hand-drawn title with Masonic devices signed S. Graham. 328x194 mm, early 20th-century buckram. Bookplate of G. N. J. Sommer, M.D. Np, 1819

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The manuscript is divided into two sections. The first, on pathology, occupies roughly three-quarters of the volume and is dated 1819 at the end; the second is devoted to therapeutics. According to a note on the front flyleaf, "the title page opposite was done by the somewhat celebrated Sylvester Graham, whose name is connected with 'Graham bread' [i. e., crackers] June, 23 1873 Wm P. Vail."