Collection: John Fergusson Lamb lecture admission ticket

Scope and Contents

Ticket admitting John F. Lamb to lectures of John Redman Coxe on materia medica and pharmacy at University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine, 1819 Nov. 3.

Dates

1819-11-03

Creator

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine (Organization)

Biographical / Historical

John Fergusson Lamb, Philadelphia physician, was born on 28 Dec. 1791. He married Susannah Taylor in 1812; they had five children. Lamb died on 26 Apr. 1869. Lamb received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820. He practiced in the Frankford section of Philadelphia. He became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1849.