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Lecture notes

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Found in 80 Collections and/or Records:

Peter Forrester notes on the lectures of Franco̧is Magendie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/078
Scope and Contents Volume of Forrester’s notes and observations on undated course of seventeen lectures on physiology delivered by Magendie in Paris, possibly at Collége de France. Course consists of lectures with experiments on dogs, rabbits, birds, and guinea pigs. Experiments explore nervous system and connection to optical and olfactory senses by severing nerves and removing sections of animal brains. Includes examples of stimulation of contraction with galvanic batteries.
Dates: circa 1820

Records of the Mütter Museum

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Identifier: CPP 7/004-01
Overview The Mütter Museum was founded in 1856 when Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter bequeathed his personal medical museum to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. From Thomas Mütter’s collection, the museum grew as a noted repository for unique collections of medical specimens across the world. The Mütter Museum records document the history of this noted institution from 1887 until 2006. Included in the collection are catalogs of item acquisitions, visitor records, event records, and the papers of several...
Dates: 1887 - 2006

Russell Murdoch notes on the lectures of J. L. Cabell

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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

Samuel B. Hunter clinical lecture notes from Pennsylvania Hospital and Jefferson Medical College

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Identifier: MSS 410
Scope and Contents note Bound volume of notes in pencil and ink taken by Samuel B. Hunter in 1854 and 1855. The notes record Hunter's observation of clinical visits, describing patient's complaints and their treatments. The volume also includes some recipes for prescriptions.
Dates: 1854-1855

Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook

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Identifier: MSS 2/130
Scope and Contents Notes taken by Samuel Hutchins on lectures at Harvard Medical School and clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1839 Jan. 10-1839 Feb. 5 (pp. 1-123), and Hutchins’ daybook from medical practice in Norton, Mass., 1841 Apr. 25-1841 Aug. 14 (pp. 124-129). Lecturers are: Jacob Bigelow on clinical medicine and materia medica; Walter Channing on midwifery; George Hayward on surgery; and John Ware on theory and practice of physic.
Dates: 1839 - 1841

Samuel Knox notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

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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

Silas Weir Mitchell papers

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Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates: Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949

St. Clair Streett notes on the lectures on Benjamin Smith Barton

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Identifier: MSS 2/121
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.
Dates: 1811 - 1812

T. Schöninger notes on the lectures of J. M. Chelius

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Identifier: MSS 2/205
Scope and Contents Volume contains notes taken by T. Schöninger on the lectures of J. M. Chelius on ophthalmology and diseases of the eye. Major subjects include cataract and diseases of the conjunctiva.
Dates: 1829

Theodore F. Breck lecture notes

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Identifier: MSS 2/272
Scope and Contents Theodore F. Breck's lecture notes on skin diseases were taken at the K. K. Allgemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria, during 1868 and 1869. The lecturer was dermatologist Ferdinand Hebra (1816-1880), the author of numerous works on skin diseases. Hebra's lectures dealt with the identification, classification, and treatment of skin diseases. Breck's notes also contain approximately thirty different prescriptions for medicines and salves to treat diseases of the skin.Also...
Dates: 1868 - 1869