Anatomy
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on lectures from the Medical College in Boston
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/082
Scope and Contents
Volume of notes taken by unnamed student at the Medical College in Boston [Harvard Medical School],
20 Nov. through 14 Dec. 1822. Contains notes on Jacob Bigelow on materia medica; Walter Channing on
midwifery; John Gorham on chemistry; James Jackson on theory and practice of medicine; and John
Collins Warren on anatomy.
Dates:
1822
Thomas Parke notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents
Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of
chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities;
and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and
chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include
Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.
Dates:
1767 - 1769
W.R. Stirling notes on the lectures of Henry McMurtrie
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/273
Scope and Contents
These notes on Henry McMurtrie's anatomical and physiological
lectures were taken by W. R. Stirling while he was a student
at the Central High School of Philadelphia. The volume is marked
"Vol. II" and contains notes on the muscles and digestive, respiratory,
circulatory, and the nervous systems. In addition to notes,
the volume contains numerous anatomical drawings.Stirling's notes reveal that McMurtrie's lectures on anatomy included
information on famous anatomists and...
Dates:
circa 1842
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