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Title

Medical notes

Authors

• Archer, John, 1741-1810

Other related names

• Archer, John George, former owner
• Chamberlain, John Fleming, former owner
• Hart, Benjamin, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 1165
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4302224
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4302224

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with quotations and words in Latin and Greek

Origin

Date

1766-1767

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

A collection of documents from John Archer's medical studies, primarily consisting of case records but also including subject treatises or lecture notes, a report of a post-mortem following the death of a patient from a polyp in his heart, and the text of an address by Archer to a student medical society. Most of the documents are from Archer's studies with John Morgan, but the post-mortem report concerns a patient of Thomas Bond's at Pennsylvania Hospital and the address to the student medical society, which is also marked Pennsylvania Hospital (f. 211r), may also be associated with Thomas Bond.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   

Extent

219 leaves : 185 x 148 mm. bound to 191 x 160 mm

Foliation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 212 + iv (modern paper); [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern leather, ca. 1956; when the book was rebound, a calligraphic inscription was added on the first flyleaf: Presented to the University of Pennsylvania by the Class of 1916, Medical School, in honor of their member, John G. Archer, great-great-grandson of the writer, the first graduate of the Medical School, in 1768.

Script

Written in the cursive hand of John Archer.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by John George Archer (Point Coupee Parish, La.; John Archer's grandson) and John Fleming Chamberlain (Natchez, Miss.; John George Archer's nephew); sold by Chamberlain's widow to the American Library Service (New York); acquired by Benjamin Hart (Bridgeport, Conn.) for his medical history collection.
   
• Sold by the Argosy Book Store, probably in 1955, to the Class of 1916, who presented the manuscript to the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1956 (inscription on first flyleaf).
   

Subjects topical

• University of Pennsylvania.--Dept. of Medicine
• Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Prescriptions
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Miscellaneous notes, f. 1r
• fol. 16r — An essay on inflammatory fevers, f. 16r
• fol. 50r — A true peripneumony, f. 50r
• fol. 82r — A dissertation on a phthisis pulmonalis, f. 82r
• fol. 122r — De urinis, f. 122r
• fol. 138r — A relation of a polypus being found..., f. 138r
• fol. 146r — A case of cutaneous eruptive tumors of an infectious nature, f. 146r
• fol. 149r — Medicines ordered in an asthma, f. 149r
• fol. 158r — A case, f. 158r
• fol. 168r — De usu et abusu concubitus, f. 168r
• fol. 176r — A case of an irregular flow of the menses..., f. 176r
• fol. 184r — A case of obstructed menses or emansio mensium, f. 184r
• fol. 188r — Directions to be observed in treating the cholic, f. 188r
• fol. 192r — A case of a uterine hemorrhage for which Dr. Morgan was consulted, f. 192r
• fol. 200r — Questions and answers on physiology, f. 200r
• fol. 208r — Address to the Hospital Medical Society, f. 208r