Anatomy
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
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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