University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine

Scope and Contents Student notes taken by John H. Fager on lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on practice of physic and pathology, poisons, and epidemics, at University of Pennsylvania, 1827. Includes notes on several authors concerning practice of medicine and descriptions and specifics for common diseases.

Scope and Contents Student notes by John M. Keating at University of Pennsylvania on lectures of Alfred Stille on theory and practice of medicine, 1873 Feb. 17-1873 Feb. 28 (nos. 71-78) and 1873 Oct. 9-1873 Nov. 14 (nos. 1-22). Lectures concern diseases of heart and brain and nervous system. Index to subjects included.

Scope and Contents Three volumes bound as one containing beginning of Chapman’s lecture course on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Volume 1 concerns description and treatment of fevers, including yellow fever; volume 2, hemorrhages; and volume 3, respiratory diseases, including croup, asthma, and consumption.

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...

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.

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...

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.

Scope and Contents Samuel Knox’s 1783 abstract of Colin McKenzie’s lectures on midwifery in 1773 and his notes on Adam Kuhn’s lectures on materia medica and Benjamin Rush’s on chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1784-1785.Volume 1 contains Knox’s abstract of Colin McKenzie’s series of 19 lectures describing the history of midwifery, symptoms of pregnancy and labor, typical and atypical births, and postnatal care.While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Knox may have...

Scope and Contents Student notes on lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton on botany and materia medica at University of Pennsylvania, 12 November 1811 to 22 February 1812, by St. Clair Streett. Subjects are considered under headings: astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, conifera, siliquosa, alliaciae, errhines, and sialogogues. Includes observations on medical uses of opium.

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...