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 Chapman’s lectures 1-24. Both volumes include a table of contents.

Dates

1817

Creator

Shivers, Thomas, Jr. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Shivers, Jr., of Delaware, received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1820; his thesis was on pleurisy. This may be the Thomas Shivers who married Jeannette Dauphin and was the father of physician James Knighton Shivers (1821-1865).

Extent

2 Volumes

Language of Materials

English

Subjects

Related Names

Creator

Shivers, Thomas, Jr. (Person)

Digital Material

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title: Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Description rules: Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description: English
Script of description: Latin