Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. II (of 4), by Benjamin Rush 58860 [Subtitle: The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author] [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/5/8/8/6/58860 ] [Files: 58860-8.txt; 58860-h.htm; ] [Clearance: 20080813121850rush] E-text prepared by MWS, Jens Nordmann, Bryan Ness, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) The author, Benjamin Rush, was probably the most prominent physician in America in the last quarter of the 18th Century and first quarter of the 19th Century. He was a professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania at a time when American colleges and universities did not have schools of medicine. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Thanks, Joe