Van Swieten, Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos: Rush's copy

With Rush's bookplate below. Rush is said to have destroyed as many of the bookplates as he could, and they are quite rare.

Benjamin Rush noted in his Autobiography: "I studied Dr. Boerhaave's Lectures upon physiology and pathology with the closest attention, and abridged a considerable part of Van Swieten's commentaries upon his practical aphorisms. I kept a commonplace book in which I recorded everything that I thought curious or valuable in my reading and in my master's practice." Rush valued and studied van Swieten's Commentaries. In 1773, Rush wrote to Benjamin Franklin: "I acknowledge myself much indebted to you for the Instruction contained in your last Letter. I have met with many Facts which confirm your Opinion of the Origin of Catarhs from Cloaths, Beds, Books &c. Baron Van Swieten in his last Volume of Commentaries on Dr. Boerhave's Aphorisms in treating upon Epidemic Diseases mentions with Astonishment a Disorder which was peculiar only to the students and Bookseller of the University of Alstorp in Switzerland."

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