Law and medicine in revolutionary America

Myrsiades, Linda S.

Law and medicine in revolutionary America dissecting the Rush v. Cobbett trial, 1799 / [electronic resource] : Linda Myrsiades. - Bethlahem, Pa. : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, c2012. - xiii, 267 p. - Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world . - Studies in eighteenth-century America and the Atlantic world. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Benjamin Rush and the culture of medicine -- Malpractice law and Benjamin Rush -- William Cobbett and the scurrilous press -- Libel law and William Cobbett -- Sangrado v. the cloven foot, the trial -- The trial concluded.


Electronic reproduction.
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2013.
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Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813 --Trials, litigation, etc.
Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 --Trials, litigation, etc.


Porcupine's gazette.


Trials (Libel)--History--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--18th century.


Electronic books.

KF228.R85 / M97 2012eb

346.7303/4