Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/130
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Samuel Hutchins on lectures at Harvard Medical School and clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1839 Jan. 10-1839 Feb. 5 (pp. 1-123), and Hutchins’ daybook from medical practice in Norton, Mass., 1841 Apr. 25-1841 Aug. 14 (pp. 124-129). Lecturers are: Jacob Bigelow on clinical medicine and materia medica; Walter Channing on midwifery; George Hayward on surgery; and John Ware on theory and practice of physic.
Dates
- 1839 - 1841
Creator
- Hutchins, Samuel (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Samuel Hutchins, Connecticut physician, was born in Seekonk, Mass., on 3 June 1818. He was the son of physician Theophilus Hutchins. Hutchins married Ellen Weatherhead in 1850; they had four daughters and one son. Samuel Hutchins died of angina pectoris on 16 Jan. 1886 at Danielsonville, Conn. Hutchins studied medicine with his father and L. Miller of Providence, R.I. He then entered Harvard Medical School and received his M.D. in 1841. Hutchins practiced medicine in Norton, Mass., then, in 1842, in Danielsonville, Conn., where he remained until his death. He was the Windham County examiner for the U.S. Pension Bureau.
Extent
1 volume (129 pages)
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- Hutchins, Samuel (Person)
- Title
- Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
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19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
215-399-2001
library@collegeofphysicians.org