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 Certificates confirm Houston’s membership in Philadelphia Medical Society as junior fellow, 1808 Feb. 20, and honorary fellow, 1809 Feb. 20. Includes signatures of Benjamin Rush and Benjamin Smith Barton.