University of Pennsylvania
Organization
Found in 40 Collections and/or Records:
R. Eglesfeld Griffith notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 271
Scope and Contents
One volume of an incomplete set of notes taken by Griffith when he was a student in Chapman’s lectures. An added title page for the volume reads "Practice of Physick, vol. 1st, 1818." Contains lectures on the practice of medicine (leaves [1]-6), and the first part of diseases of the circulatory system, "of fevers," (leaves 7-[10]) and intermittent fevers (leaves [11] through 42). The remaining leaves, about two-thirds of the volume, are blank.
Dates:
1818 - 1820
Robert H. Colhoun lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/231
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents Robert H. Colhoun's medical education
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1832. The collection contains
Colhoun's matriculation ticket, signed by William E. Horner
and tickets admitting him to the lectures of Thomas C. James
and William Dewees on midwifery and Nathaniel Chapman on the
institutes of medicine and clinical practice.
Dates:
1832 - 1833
Robert Pryor Richardson notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey
Item
Identifier: 10a 198
Scope and Contents
One volume ([64] p.) of an incomplete set of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey. Lectures are numbered 2-8; lecture 2 is dated 17 Nov. 1817. Topics covered include animal life, sympathy, nutrients, vegetable food (grains, roots, fruits), animal food (mutton, wild game, poultry, eggs, fish, shellfish, snake, turtle, milk, dairy products), cooking (pickling, soups, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing), and drinks.
Dates:
1817
Samuel Hollingsworth Stout notes on the lectures of Hugh Lenox Hodge
Item
Identifier: 10a 376
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of notes on 54 obstetrics lectures delivered by Hugh L. Hodge from 7 Nov. 1842 to 18 Mar. 1843 at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the rectos of leaves 1-31 of vol. 1 contain Stout’s pencilled annotations and lectures 1-12 bear pencil dates of 29 Oct. to 3 Dec. 1900. Stout may have been preparing his notes from Hodge’s course for the obstetrics course he never taught in the Medical Department of the University of Dallas.
Dates:
1842 - 1843
William E. Horner notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Item
Identifier: 10a 283
Scope and Contents
One volume (457 leaves) on notes on the physiology lectures of Benjamin Rush delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics cover visiting the sick, the pulse, animal heat, motion, respiration, circulation, the nervous system, sensation, muscles and tendons, sympathy, senses, operations and pleasures of the human mind, digestion, lymphatic system, glands, excretions, nutrition, peculiarities of the sexes, and generation.
Dates:
1813
William Ellery Hughes record of anomalies found in the dissecting room of the University of Pennsylvania
Item
Identifier: 10a 57
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of illustrations and descriptions of anatomical anomalies found mainly in the muscular, arterial, venous,
nervous, and osseous systems of subjects dissected at the University of Pennsylvania during the 1878-1879 and probably
the 1879-1880 academic sessions.
Dates:
circa 1878 - 1880
William Gerry Morgan typescript on the history of the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/132
Scope and Contents
Address for University of Pennsylvania’s Celebration of Medical Progress, 10-11 Oct. 1930, but never delivered. Morgan highlights university’s outstanding events, individuals, such as Benjamin Franklin, John Morgan, and Benjamin Rush, and contributions to medicine.
Dates:
circa 1930
William S. Wallace notes on the lectures of John Redman Coxe
Item
Identifier: 10a 37
Scope and Contents
One volume (143 pages) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Redman Coxe. Lectures are dated from Nov. 24, 1821 to Jan. 11, 1822 and cover the topics venesection, emetics, cathartics, anthelmintics, and diuretics.
Dates:
1821 - 1822
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
Wilmer Worthington notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 33
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture topics include physiology, pathology, and the practice of medicine, including diseases of the circulatory, digestive, and respiratory systems, plus lectures on dropsy, gout and diseases of the genital organs. Each volume contains an index.
Dates:
circa 1823-1825
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