Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes on Chapman’s lectures 1-24. Both volumes include a table of contents.
Dates
- 1817
Creator
- Shivers, Thomas, Jr. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Thomas Shivers, Jr., of Delaware, received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820; his thesis was on pleurisy. This may be the Thomas Shivers who married Jeannette Dauphin and was the father of physician James Knighton Shivers (1821-1865).
Extent
2 Volumes
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Shivers, Thomas, Jr. (Person)
- Title
- Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
