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John M. Keating notes on the lectures of Alfred Stille

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/128

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.

Dates

  • 1873

Creator

Biographical / Historical

John Marie Keating, pediatrician, was born in Philadelphia on 30 Apr. 1852. He was the son of physician William V. Keating and Susan La Roche Keating, the daughter of René La Roche. Keating married Edith McCall; they had four children. John M. Keating died of pneumonia in Colorado Springs, Colo., on 17 Nov. 1893. Keating received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1873. He then served residencies at Pennsylvania Hospital and Philadelphia Hospital where he was later visiting physician. He held the post of gynecologist at St. Joseph's Hospital and St. Agnes' Hospital, lectured on the disease of children at the University of Pennsylvania, and was medical director of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company (1888-1891). He was president of the American Pediatric Society.

Extent

1 volume (157 pages)

Language of Materials

English

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository

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