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Title

Miscellania Medica & Chemica

Authors

• Elmer, Jonathan, 1745-1817

Call number

UPA 3 pre 1820, Box UPA 3 pre 1820, Item 1644i
(Philadelphia, University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania, General Administration Collection Pre-1820)

Publisher

University Archives and Records Center, University of Pennsylvania

Language

Primary language: English.

Origin

Date

ca. 1767

Place

Philadelphia, PA

Summary

Medical student notes and essays taken primarily during Jonathan Elmer's time as a medical student at the College of Philadelphia.

Extent

Page dimensions: 20 x 13 cm; bound to: 21 x 14 cm

Subjects names

• Morgan, John, 1735-1789
• University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine

Subjects topical

• Medicine -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Early works to 1800

Genres

• Lectures

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Table of contents
• fol. 2r — A Theo-eulogiac oration on the strutures of the human body
• fol. 18r — Heads of a dissertaton on the Jaundice, Delivered at a meeting of the Union Medical Society January 3d 1767
• fol. 26r — Copy of a letter to Dr. Thomas Bond on the causes of the adhesion of inflamed membranes, December 28, 1767
• fol. 39r — A physiological essay on secretion
• fol. 115r — Heads of an essay entitled de anima medica
• fol. 120r — Chemical tracts
• fol. 122r — Chemical tracts: Of the expansion of bodies
• fol. 127r — Chemical tracts: Practical chemistry or directions for making sundry chemical preparations
• fol. 140r — Notes on chemistry
• fol. 164r — Of the operations of chemistry
• fol. 188r — On the medical virtues of oils sulphur and spirituous liquors … Also ctirical remarks on the saline prepartion of the Lond & Edinburgh pharmacopocias
• fol. 217r — Of the medical virtues of salts [blank page]
• fol. 220r — Of alcohol and fermentation
• fol. 227r — An essay on the nitrous acid
• fol. 252r — Elective attractions