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Title

Lecture notes on medicine:

Authors

• Trevor, Joseph
• Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872
• Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853

Call number

Ms. Coll. 498
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9935591443503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/ead/upenn_rbml_PUSpMsColl498 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3348gn90

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Origin

Date

1824-1826

Summary

This collection contains lecture notes on pathology, diagnosis, and treatments, including prescriptions, taken at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from 1824 to 1826 in courses taught by Dr. Samuel Jackson. The lecture notes include frequent references to Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, a professor to whom Jackson was made assistant in 1827.A portion of the volume is in question and answer format. For example, under the condition "Asthma," questions such as "What is asthma?," "What are the causes?," etc. are asked and followed by the answers. By page 36, this format changes to a more standard narrative of the lectures.Lectures addressed bilious pleurisy, peripneumonia rotha, asthma, angina pectoris, pertussis, phthisis pulmonalis, cynanche trachialis, dropsy, atonic dropsy, ascitis, hydrothorax, scrophula, marasmus, hydrocephalus, cynanche laryngea, cynanche tonsillaris, cynanche parotidea (mumps), scarlet fever, measles, variola or small pox, gout, rheumatism, hematuria, hemorrhoides or piles, diseases of the digestive system, drunkenness, exanthemata, diseases of the cutaneous system, erysipelas, diseases of the cerebral system, epilepsy, chronic laryngitis, and hepatitis. All spelling and terms are replicated exactly. Several pages were removed, it appears with a knife. A small number of remedies follow, including a recipe for "Dr. Jackson's cough mixture." A few notes, originally laid into the volume, include a recipe for "sirip de cusineaux."

Notes

• Written in one hand, attribution from front cover and 1 item laid in.
   
• Two leaves laid in.
   

Extent

1 v

Foliation

[ii], ff. 1-113, pp. 114-119, 15 leaves cut out, 5 ff.

Provenance

• Valentino, Carmen D.
   
• Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino, 2003.
   

Subjects topical

• University of Pennsylvania--Department of Medicine
• Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century
• Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--19th century
• Pathology

Genres

• Lecture notes
• Manuscripts--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--19th century

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