Collection: Alexander Knight daybooks | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents note

This collection consists of two volumes of Knight's lists of patients attended, 1813-1815 and 1820-1821. The lists include the date, name, age, residence, cost, diagnosis, and outcome. The first volume also includes a summary table of patients seen by month for the years 1813 through 1817. The second volume includes the profession as well as the referring person of the patient in some of the entries.

Dates

1813-1821

Creator

Knight, Alexander (Person)

Biographical/Historical note

Alexander Knight (d. 1827) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1807 and was a physician in the city of Philadelphia.

Extent

2 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

Knight, Alexander (Person)

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Alexander Knight daybooks
Author: Revised by Chrissie Perella
Date: 2012; March 2019
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: Undetermined
Script of description: Code for undetermined script
Language of description note: Finding aid written in English
Sponsor: This collection-level EAD record is a product of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.