Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Miscellania anatomica et physiologica

Authors

• Elmer, Jonathan, 1745-1817
• Cullen, William, 1710-1790
• Hunter, William, 1718-1783
• Morgan, John, 1735-1789

Call number

Ms. Codex 848
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 3178000
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3178000

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English, with quotations and three essays in Latin

Origin

Date

1767-1768

Place

Philadelphia

Summary

A collection of medical lectures and essays written and transcribed (some from manuscript lectures of other physicians) by Elmer, the first was "Delivered at the meeting of the junior medical society in the Pennsylvania Hospital in December 1767."

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page (f. i recto).
   

Extent

166 leaves : 201 x 125 (179 x 115) mm. bound to 207 x 135 mm

Foliation

Paper, 166; [iii, 1-163]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary half sheep, marbled boards; hinges partly cracked.

Decoration

Diagram (f. 148v).

Script

Written in a cursive script, apparently in the hand of Jonathan Elmer (signature, f. i recto).

Provenance

• Sold by Jonathan A. Hill (New York), May 2001.
   

Subjects topical

• Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Medicine--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Lectures
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

Licenses

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Decorations

• fol. 148v — Diagram, f. 148v