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Title

Lectures on medicine :

Authors

• Briscoe, John Hanson, 1789-1855

Other related names

• Huston, Robert M. 1795-1864, former owner
• Kreider, H. H, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 887
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9934319693503681
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3zc7s13j

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

ca. 1815-1825

Summary

Frequently cited are the opinions and cases of Dr. Physick, Dr. Dorsey, Dr. Rush, Dr. Barton, Dr. Chapman, and Dr. Coxe, among others, including discussions of Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793.

Notes

• No title or attribution in manuscript, title on spine "Materia Medica, Vol. 1;" leaf or leaves missing at the beginning.
   
• Appears to be written in one hand, although the size and spacing of the writing varies considerably; not in the hand of John Redman Coxe. Comparison with handwriting of lecture notes taken by John Hanson Briscoe, Ms. Coll. 448, suggests that this volume may have been compiled by Briscoe.
   
• No dates; the recent deaths of Dr. Samuel Duffield [1814] and Dr. Barton [1815] are alluded to; the manuscript may date from 1815.
   
• Bookseller identifies former owner Huston [f. 1] as Dr. Robert M. Huston who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine in 1825.
   

Extent

1 volume

Foliation

[4 ff. blank], pp. 1-519 with some errors in pagination, [520-541] [4 ff. blank]; pagination upper center, written on recto only on odd numbered pages.

Binding

contemporary leather, front cover detached.

Provenance

• Provenance: [M?] Mend[?] Huston (crossed out); H. H. Kreider, M.D.
   
• Sold by Carmen D. Valentino (Philadelphia), 2002.
   

Subjects topical

• Barton, Benjamin Smith,--1766-1815
• Chapman, Nathaniel,--1780-1853
• Coxe, John Redman,--1773-1864
• Dorsey, John Syng,--1783-1818
• Physick, Philip Syng,--1768-1837
• Rush, Benjamin,--1746-1813
• University of Pennsylvania--Department of Medicine
• Materia medica
• Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century
• Yellow fever

Genres

• Codices
• Lecture notes
• Recipes
• Manuscripts, American--19th century

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