RARE LECTURE TICKET FOR BENJAMIN RUSH LECTURE UPON THE INSTITUTES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE AND ON CLINICAL CASES
From Catalog II
Lecture tickets were the material currency of early American medical education: physical tokens entitling their holders to attend a course of lectures. Rush charged fees for his lectures, and these tickets are among the most tactile evidence of the transaction at the heart of medical pedagogy -- the student's purchase of access to the professor's knowledge. This 1804 ticket dates from the final decade of Rush's teaching career, when his methods were at once most refined and most embattled. The students attending his lectures in 1804 were entering a profession that Rush had done more than any other American to define.
