Jackson, Samuel
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1787 - 1872
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Isaac Hiester letter to Samuel Jackson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/143
Scope and Contents
Hiester recalls experience as student sent by Caspar Wistar to Germantown to report on outbreak of yellow fever among several families there, circa 1805. Letter describes physical situation of Germantown and location of houses of infected families.
Dates:
1821-08-24
Letter from George F. Lehman to Samuel Jackson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/142
Scope and Contents
Letter written by George F. Lehman from the Lazaretto, 14 June 1821, reporting on voyage of London Packet from New Orleans to Philadelphia in 1821 to illustrate non-contagious nature of yellow fever. Lehman describes habits and symptoms of passengers who fell ill with the disease.
Dates:
1821-06-14
Nicholas Chervin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/141
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifty-seven responses from fifty-six Philadelphia physicians to Chervin's 1821 survey concerning each physician's experiences with and beliefs regarding the contagious nature of yellow fever.
Dates:
1821 - 1832
Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/131
Scope and Contents
Student notes taken in three different hands on lectures in University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, 1850-1862. Bulk of volume contains notes on lectures of George Bacon Wood on theory and practice of medicine, 1857, and William Pepper on theory and practice of medicine, 1861-1862. Other lecturers are: Joseph Carson on materia medica, 1851; J. F. Frazer on the steam-engine, 1850; William Gibson on surgery, 1851; Samuel Jackson on institutes of medicine, 1851, 1860, and 1861; and...
Dates:
1850 - 1862
Samuel Jackson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/167
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Samuel Jackson material contains letters
written and received by him, a case history, two bills, and
a recipe, 1835-1864. Most of the letters received and the case history concern descriptions
and treatments of epileptics by physicians, generally alumni
of the University of Pennsylvania who were practicing in the
southern United States. The physicians are: Richard D. Arnold,
William B. Cochran, Francis H. Deane, S. C. Gleaves, Virginius
W. Harrison,...
Dates:
1835 - 1864
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