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Leidy family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/155
Scope and Contents
The Leidy family papers consist of two discrete collections, including lecture and admission cards, correspondence, and newsclippings. The first collection of Leidy family material, MSS 2/155-01, contains lecture admission cards and related material, 1830-1866, from the medical educations of Napoleon B. Leidy and Philip Leidy at the University of Pennsylvania and the pharmaceutical education of Thomas Leidy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. The series includes several cards...
Dates:
1830 - 1933
Louis Philip Carbonell record of anomalies found in the dissecting rooms of the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: Z10 14
Scope and Contents
One volume of colored illustrations and one volume of accompanying notes detailing anatomical anomalies discovered in the dissecting rooms of the University of Pennsylvania during the 1877-1878 and 1878-1879 sessions. Illustrations depict normal and anomalous states side by side. Descriptions are dated and include subjects not illustrated.
Dates:
1877 - 1879
Notes on lectures from the Medical College in Boston
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/082
Scope and Contents
Volume of notes taken by unnamed student at the Medical College in Boston [Harvard Medical School],
20 Nov. through 14 Dec. 1822. Contains notes on Jacob Bigelow on materia medica; Walter Channing on
midwifery; John Gorham on chemistry; James Jackson on theory and practice of medicine; and John
Collins Warren on anatomy.
Dates:
1822
Notes on the lectures of Alexander Monro
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/327
Overview
The collection contains two manuscript volumes of notes, 1786 Jan. 12-[17]86 Apr. 5, taken by an unknown author of lectures given by Alexander Monro, 1737-1817. Alexander Monro held the chair of anatomy at the University of Edinburgh during the period the notes were recorded. The subjects discussed in the first volume of notes include general anatomy, jaundice, hernia, pregnancy, and teeth. The subjects covered in the second volume include teeth, surgery, hernia, dropsy, tumors, hair lip, ear,...
Dates:
1786
Russell Murdoch notes on the lectures of J. L. Cabell
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/209
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Russell Murdoch on the lectures of J. L. Cabell in the Department of Medicine of the University of Virginia, 1860 Oct. 3-1861 Apr. 1. Subjects of the lectures are comparative anatomy, histology, and human physiology. Review or study questions are interspersed with the lecture notes. A few pages of rough notes included.
Dates:
1860 - 1861
Sturgis-Faber collection
Collection
Identifier: P-SFABER
Overview
Medical illustrations, portraits, and other original artwork by Hermann Faber, and his two sons, Ludwig E. and Erwin F., of Philadelphia, for George A. Piersol's 1907 edition of Human Anatomy and other publications. Approximately 300 items in 6 boxes. A full inventory of the items is available in the Library's card catalog.
Dates:
circa 1907
Thomas Parke notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents
Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of
chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities;
and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and
chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include
Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.
Dates:
1767 - 1769
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
W.R. Stirling notes on the lectures of Henry McMurtrie
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/273
Scope and Contents
These notes on Henry McMurtrie's anatomical and physiological
lectures were taken by W. R. Stirling while he was a student
at the Central High School of Philadelphia. The volume is marked
"Vol. II" and contains notes on the muscles and digestive, respiratory,
circulatory, and the nervous systems. In addition to notes,
the volume contains numerous anatomical drawings.Stirling's notes reveal that McMurtrie's lectures on anatomy included
information on famous anatomists and...
Dates:
circa 1842
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