Lecture notes
Subject
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Found in 106 Collections and/or Records:
John Wiley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/059
Scope and Contents
This small collection of five notebooks documents John Wiley's
medical education at Jefferson Medical College, 1835-1837, and
gives some sketchy information about his later professional
life.The heart of the collection consists of one volume of Wiley's
notes (1835-1837) on the lectures of Jefferson faculty, including:
Samuel Colhoun on materia medica; Robley Dunglison on physiology;
Jacob Green on chemistry; George McClellan on surgery; Granville
Sharp Pattison on anatomy;...
Dates:
1834 - 1855
John Yardley Clark notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey
Collection
Identifier: 10a 306
Scope and Contents
One volume (131, 250, 11 leaves) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey at the University of Pennsylvania. The first section is a general lecture on therapeutics, which includes subsection “the modus operandi of medicines”. The second section covers bloodletting and the following materia medica: emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialagogues, emenagogues, anthelmintics, stimulants, narcotics, antispasmodics, tonics, and epispastics. The last...
Dates:
1816 - 1817
Jonathan Archer notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: 10a 453
Scope and Contents
Volume 4 and 5 of a set of notes taken by John Archer on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1796-1797. Topics covered include pathology, the causes of disease, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine, particularly in the case of fevers.
Dates:
1796 - 1797
Jonathan Faust notebook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/071
Scope and Contents
Volume documents Jonathan N. Faust’s education at Jefferson Medical College, 1866-1867,
and
contains recipes, Faust family genealogical material, and miscellaneous material, 1867-1881.
Pages 167
contain notes on medical clinic of J. M. Da Costa and surgical clinic of Samuel D. Gross and notes
from lectures of John B. Biddle on materia medica; Samuel H. Dickson on practice of medicine; Robley
Dunglison on institutes of medicine; William H. Pancoast on anatomy; B. Howard Rand on chemistry;...
Dates:
1866 - 1881
Joseph G. Richardson papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 432
Overview
Joseph Gibbons Richardson was born in Philadelphia in 1836. He earned his M.D. in 1862 from the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a lecturer on pathological anatomy and professor of hygiene. Richardson is best known for his contributions to the field of medical microscopy. He died in Philadelphia in 1886.The Joseph G. Richardson papers date from 1862 to 1887, and document Richardson’s professional career as a physician in 19th-century Philadelphia, including letters to...
Dates:
1862-1887; undated
Joseph Galloway Shippen notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: 10a 108
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine. There are two sets of notes on the practice of medicine; one set of notes is in the form of questions.
Dates:
1809 - 1810
Joseph W. Paul notes on the lectures of Joseph Parrish
Item
Identifier: 10a 452
Scope and Contents
One volume (68 leaves) of notes on lectures by Joseph Parrish delivered privately circa 1830. Lacks title page. Lecturer identified by comparison with W.W. Gerhard’s notes on Parrish’s lectures. Paul’s text begins with leaf 53 of Gerhard’s text. Topics covered include fevers and gastrointestinal diseases.
Dates:
circa 1830
Lecture notes from the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/116
Scope and Contents
Notes from clinics on medical subjects given by faculty at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital, 28 Feb. 1902-19 Apr. 1902. Occasional notes from A. E. Turman’s observations of clinics at Bellevue
Hospital and the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, Feb. 1902, included. Also included are
recipes and notes on materia medica, 1906, and one folder of prescriptions. Topics addressed at the New York
Post-Graduate Medical School include diseases of the ear, nose,...
Dates:
1902 - 1906
Leonard Lawrence notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/083
Scope and Contents
Three volumes bound as one containing beginning of Chapman’s lecture course on practice of medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 concerns description and treatment of fevers, including
yellow fever; volume 2, hemorrhages; and volume 3, respiratory diseases, including croup, asthma, and
consumption.
Dates:
1818 - 1820
Nathan L. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/213
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Nathan L. Hatfield's papers, 1821-1826, documents his medical education and early career and personal interests. The collection contains notes on lectures from both
the University of Pennsylvania and the first session of Jefferson Medical College. Also included are a few samples of Hatfield's writings, such as the draft of an application to the Managers
of the Philadelphia Alms House for resident student status, essays, a eulogy on Samuel Williston Lebeau, and the...
Dates:
1821 - 1826
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