Physick, Philip Syng
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1768 - 1837
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Jackson notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/196
Scope and Contents
Alexander Jackson’s notes, 26 January through 27 February 1824, from lectures in Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Includes occasional diagrams and subject index. Lecturers include: Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine, John Redman Coxe on materia medica, William Gibson on surgery, and William P. Dewees and Thomas C. James on midwifery. Includes occasional notes on Robert Hare on chemistry and Philip Syng Physick on anatomy.
Dates:
1824
Benjamin Rush correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/096
Scope and Contents
The collection includes a reply by Benjamin Rush and twelve other Philadelphia physicians, Charles Caldwell, William Dewees,
John Redman Coxe, Philip Syng Physick, James Reynolds, Francis Bowes Sayre, John C. Otto, William
Boys, Samuel Cooper, James Stuart, Felix Pascalis Ouviere, and Joseph Strong, to inquiry of Thomas
Mifflin on 1797 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. Rush maintains yellow fever is identical with bilious
remitting fever of warm climates, discusses source of 1797 outbreak...
Dates:
1800, undated
Bill to Samuel Meredith for Philip Syng Physick’s consultation with Benjamin Rush
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/140
Scope and Contents
Receipted bill to Samuel Meredith for Philip Syng Physick’s consultation with Benjamin Rush, Sept. 1795, and operation and advice, Jan.-Feb. 1796. Bill bears autograph signature of Philip Syng Physick, 2 Jan. 1797.
Dates:
1797-01-02
Charles G. Fowler lecture notes from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/027
Scope and Contents
The three volumes of Charles G. Fowler's collection of lecture
notes documents the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
circa 1826. Volumes 1 and 2 consist of detailed notes from
Nathaniel Chapman's course on Practice, Institutes, and Clinical
Medicine. The notes describe the causes, symptoms, and treatment
of fevers, blood diseases, consumption, asthma, and stomach
disorders. There is a brief contemporary table of contents to
Volume 1; a complete listing of contents for...
Dates:
circa 1826-1828
George Green papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/013
Scope and Contents
The contents of this commonplace book of George Green, Sr., divide
naturally into three series: medical lecture notes and examination
questions, many from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1817-1820; copies or drafts of personal correspondence,
1824 and undated; and poetry, literary sentences, and miscellaneous
writings, 1858-1860 and undated. Medical items in the volume include a copy of notes on Philip Syng
Physick's lecture on inflammation, [1819?]...
Dates:
1817 - 1860
John Atlee notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/065
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of John L. Atlee’s notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania, 1818-1820,
documenting his medical education. Volume 1 contains Atlee’s notes, 18 February 1818 to 26 February 1818, on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on Practice, Institutes, and Clinical Medicine, numbers 79 [continued] through 85. Volume 2 contains Atlee’s notes, 15 November 1819 to 18 January 1820, on the lectures of John Redman Coxe on materia medica; William Gibson on surgery; Robert Hare...
Dates:
1818 - 1820
Notes on the lectures of Philip Syng Physick
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/206
Scope and Contents
Volume contains notes taken by an unnamed student on lectures of Philip Syng Physick on surgery, probably in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1805. The lectures are numbered 1-14 in part 1 and 15-26 in part 2. Major subjects are: inflammation; ulcers; the treatment of fractures, wounds, and head injuries; diseases of the eye and cataract surgery; and amputation. Index to subjects included in part 2.
Dates:
circa 1805
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