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Autograph Letter Signed. Rush, Benj[amin]. Philadelphia, March 2, 1791. 3 pp., folio, with cognate address leaf; minor chipping, no loss to letter. To George Miller, Providence, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, diagnosing the recipient's daughter, from her father's note, as suffering from consumption & presenting in this letter a full & detailed course of treatment, blood letting, a diet of milk & vegetables, flannel clothing for warmth, horseback riding in dry weather, laudanum for night coughs.
"From the short account of your daughter given to me in your note, I am led to suspect that she is disposed to a consumption..."
Rush, Benjamin (1745-1813), pioneering Philadelphia physician, patriot & humanitarian, signer of the Declaration of Independence.