Lecture notes
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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 Alexander Monro
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/327
Overview
The collection contains two manuscript volumes of notes, 1786 Jan. 12-[17]86 Apr. 5, taken by an unknown author of lectures given by Alexander Monro, 1737-1817. Alexander Monro held the chair of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh during the period the notes were recorded. The subjects discussed in the first volume of notes include general anatomy, jaundice, hernia, pregnancy, and teeth. The subjects covered in the second volume include teeth, surgery, hernia, dropsy, tumors, hair lip, ear,...
Dates:
1786
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
Notes on the lectures of Philip Syng Physick
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/206
Scope and Contents
Volume contains notes taken by an unnamed student on lectures of Philip Syng Physick on surgery, probably in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1805. The lectures are numbered 1-14 in part 1 and 15-26 in part 2. Major subjects are: inflammation; ulcers; the treatment of fractures, wounds, and head injuries; diseases of the eye and cataract surgery; and amputation. Index to subjects included in part 2.
Dates:
circa 1805
Peirce family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/308
Scope and Contents
The collection contains medical education and personal papers,
1824-1895, of three physicians of the Peirce family of Maine.
Series 1 includes volumes of notes, 1824-1825, taken by James
H. Peirce on Nathan Smith's lectures on surgery and the theory
and practice of physic at the Medical School of Maine. One
volume of notes on the anatomy and physiology lectures of John
D. Wells is included. The series also includes Peirce's rough
notes for an essay, probably his medical...
Dates:
1824 - 1895
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