Lecture notes
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Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes on...
Dates:
1817
Thomas Justus Dunott notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/239
Scope and Contents
Student notes by Thomas J. Dunott on surgical lectures of Thomas D. Mütter at Jefferson Medical College, 1852. Notes interleaved with Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery. Dunott’s notes concern: amputation; diseases and fractures of bones; inflammation; and wounds and injuries, specifically of head and abdomen. Includes occasional notes on John Kearsley Mitchell’s lectures on practice of medicine.
Dates:
1852
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
Thomas Ruston papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/137
Scope and Contents
This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the
education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston.
Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education
at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures
on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three
letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions
signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack
of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...
Dates:
1764 - 1802
Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.
Dates:
1817
William D. Frazier papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/288
Scope and Contents
The William D. Frazier Papers, spanning 1874 to 1984, contain
professional papers relating to Frazier's career as a surgeon
and specialist in occupational medicine; personal papers; papers
of his father, neurosurgeon Charles H. Frazier; and numerous
photographs. Included among William D. Frazier's professional papers is correspondence,
reports of operative experience, and other items concerning
his work at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
and the Hospital of...
Dates:
1874 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1913 - 1963
William H. McPherson notes on the lectures of Charles Hemple
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/042
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by William H. McPherson at Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania [Hahnemann
Medical College of Philadelphia] on lectures of Charles J. Hemple, 18571858.
Notes include listing of
substances, generally poisons or acids, with relevant symptoms and effects on various anatomical groups
(cerebral, nervous, inflammatory, cutaneous, gastric, etc.) and antidotes. Volume 1 contains entries A
through R; volume 2 contains S through Z and alphabetical listing of other substances.
Dates:
1857 - 1858
William Shaw notes on the lectures of George H. B. Macleod
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/110
Scope and Contents
William J. Shaw’s notes on lectures of George H. B. Macleod on surgery at the University of Glasgow, 1874
Nov. 21-1875 Apr. 1. Lectures are numbered 1-91. Subjects are: surgical pathology, tumors, bone fractures, and
wounds and injuries of the head, spine, and neck.
Dates:
1874 - 1875
William Wood Gerhard papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/183
Scope and Contents
This small collection of W. W. Gerhard's papers, 1834-1845, documenting his education and early career, contains letters received and sent, some correspondence of his brother, lawyer Benjamin Gerhard, and a few receipted bills and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection is composed of letters sent to Gerhard, 1834-1837, from colleagues, many of whom studied with him in Paris, The letters, several in French, describe medical student life and conditions there. Included are letters from A....
Dates:
1834 - 1845
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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