Materia Medica
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 26 Collections and/or Records:
John Wiley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/059
Scope and Contents
This small collection of five notebooks documents John Wiley's
medical education at Jefferson Medical College, 1835-1837, and
gives some sketchy information about his later professional
life.The heart of the collection consists of one volume of Wiley's
notes (1835-1837) on the lectures of Jefferson faculty, including:
Samuel Colhoun on materia medica; Robley Dunglison on physiology;
Jacob Green on chemistry; George McClellan on surgery; Granville
Sharp Pattison on anatomy;...
Dates:
1834 - 1855
Jonathan Faust notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/071
Scope and Contents
Volume documents Jonathan N. Faust’s education at Jefferson Medical College, 1866-1867,
and
contains recipes, Faust family genealogical material, and miscellaneous material, 1867-1881.
Pages 167
contain notes on medical clinic of J. M. Da Costa and surgical clinic of Samuel D. Gross and notes
from lectures of John B. Biddle on materia medica; Samuel H. Dickson on practice of medicine; Robley
Dunglison on institutes of medicine; William H. Pancoast on anatomy; B. Howard Rand on chemistry;...
Dates:
1866 - 1881
Lancaster County recipe book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/258
Scope and Contents
Recipe book of unnamed Lancaster County, Pa., physician, circa 1854. Includes notes on dosages and recipes with notes on use and effectiveness. Numerous citations to published works on materia medica and medical periodicals. Several recipes derive from botanic or eclectic medical sources. Index to contents in volume.
Dates:
circa 1854
Nathan L. Hatfield papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/213
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Nathan L. Hatfield's papers, 1821-1826, documents his medical education and early career and personal interests. The collection contains notes on lectures from both
the University of Pennsylvania and the first session of Jefferson Medical College. Also included are a few samples of Hatfield's writings, such as the draft of an application to the Managers
of the Philadelphia Alms House for resident student status, essays, a eulogy on Samuel Williston Lebeau, and the...
Dates:
1821 - 1826
Nelson Isham commonplace book
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/025
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the volume contains Isham's notes on the lecture courses
of Eli Ives on disease of children and materia medica at Yale
in 1826 and 1827. The notes describe the causes, diagnosis,
and treatment of diseases of infants and children (pp. 2-98)
and different medications and their uses (pp.101-132). There
is a topical index to the lecture notes on page 233. The remainder of the commonplace book contains medical recipes
and prescriptions (pp.99-100 and 171-193); a...
Dates:
1826 - 1831
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
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
Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/208
Scope and Contents
Volume of notes taken by an unidentified student on the lectures of Joseph Carson on materia medica, William Pepper on the theory and practice of medicine, and Henry H. Smith on surgery in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1862 December 2-1863 January 29, and R. A. F. Penrose on obstetrics at Philadelphia Hospital, 1862 December 10-1863 February 6. Three case descriptions presented by J. M. Da Costa at the hospital are also included.
Dates:
1862 - 1863
Notes on the lectures of Eli Ives
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/123
Scope and Contents
Notes by student, possibly Richard O. Flynn, taken from lectures of Eli Ives on materia medica at the Medical
Institution of Yale College, 1822-1823. Ives defines materia medica, explains classification system, then
describes individual substances and uses according to system in the following order: narcotics, antispasmodics,
irritants, tonics, aromatics, astringents, emetics, cathartics, emmenagogues, diuretics, diaphoretics,
expectorants, sialagogues, and errhines.
Dates:
1822 - 1823
Notes on the lectures of John Redman Coxe
Item
Identifier: MSS 389
Overview
John Redman Coxe was born on 16 September 1773 in Trenton, N.J. and died in Philadelphia on 22 March 1864. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794. Coxe held the positions of Professor of Chemistry (1809-1818) and Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1818-1835) at the University of Pennsylvania.One volume of notes (254 pages) taken by an unknown student from a course of lectures on materia medica delivered at the University of Pennsylvania by John...
Dates:
27 November 1824 - 25 February 1825
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