Obstetrics
Subject
Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Notes on the lectures of Thomas Young
Item
Identifier: 10a 120
Scope and Contents
One volume of notes on obstetrics lectures given by Thomas Young at the University of Edinburgh. Includes table of contents. Incomplete, lacks p. 46-50, 76-91, 180-181, 226-248, 268-271, and 307-318.
Dates:
circa 1777
Samuel Hollingsworth Stout notes on the lectures of Hugh Lenox Hodge
Item
Identifier: 10a 376
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of notes on 54 obstetrics lectures delivered by Hugh L. Hodge from 7 Nov. 1842 to 18 Mar. 1843 at the University of Pennsylvania. Most of the rectos of leaves 1-31 of vol. 1 contain Stout’s pencilled annotations and lectures 1-12 bear pencil dates of 29 Oct. to 3 Dec. 1900. Stout may have been preparing his notes from Hodge’s course for the obstetrics course he never taught in the Medical Department of the University of Dallas.
Dates:
1842 - 1843
Samuel Knox notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/050
Scope and Contents
Samuel Knox’s 1783 abstract of Colin McKenzie’s lectures on midwifery in 1773 and his notes on Adam
Kuhn’s lectures on materia medica and Benjamin Rush’s on chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1784-1785.Volume 1 contains Knox’s abstract of Colin McKenzie’s series of 19 lectures describing the
history of midwifery, symptoms of pregnancy and labor, typical and atypical births, and postnatal
care.While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Knox may have...
Dates:
1783 - 1785
William T. Taylor manuscript on maternal impressions affecting the fetus
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/031
Scope and Contents
Manuscript of address to Philadelphia County Medical Society on 26 Apr. 1876. Taylor contends
emotional or mental state of a mother can affect unborn child during pregnancy. He cites several
examples, including spina bifida, strabismus, cleft palate, and various wounds, marks, and deformations,
all connected with some prenatal sight or occurrence.
Additional Form: Published in Philadelphia Medical Times, vol. 7, no. 4., 1876.
Additional Form: Published in Philadelphia Medical Times, vol. 7, no. 4., 1876.
Dates:
1876
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