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J. Arman notes on lectures from the Université de Montpellier, 1748

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1 volume (333 pages)

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Held at: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Contact Us]

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Jacques Lamarque notes on the lectures of Jacques Lazerme , 1729

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1 volume

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Held at: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Contact Us]

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Jonathan Murduck notes on Materia Medica lectures delivered by Benjamin Smith Barton at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1802 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear_foot (1 volume)

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This volume of handwritten lecture notes, titled "A Course of Lectures on the Materia Medica by Benjamin Smith Barton M.D., Professor […] at the University of Pennsylvania," was kept by medical student Jonathan Murduck in 1802, and provides a fairly comprehensive survey of the medicinal substances commonly in use in the early nineteenth century United States.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Hiester H. Muhlenberg and Wellington Smith Mason notes on lectures delivered by Drs. Nathaniel Chapman, Judson Daland, and J.K. Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 1832, 1894-1895 (inclusive)

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1 volume

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This notebook contains lecture material transcribed by two different students at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. One portion of the volume contains notes taken by Hiester H. Muhlenberg in 1832; the later material was written by Wellington Smith Mason during two separate courses of lectures between 1894 and 1895. The notes taken by Muhlenberg record a series of lectures delivered by Dr. Nathaniel Chapman on hemorrhages, fevers, cardiac disease and nervous disorders. The notes taken by Mason, decades later, document Dr. Judson Daland's lectures on physical diagnosis and Dr. J.K. Mitchell's lectures on symptomatology.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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John W. Houck lecture notes, 1900-1901, undated (inclusive)

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0.2 linear feet (1 box)

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This collection contains three books of lecture notes recorded by John W. Houck at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1900 and 1901. The notebooks correspond to courses taught by Dr. Charles Essig, Dr. James Truman, and Dr. Edward Cameron Kirk, each of whom served as the dean of the dental school for some period between 1878 and 1917. Additional files in the collection contain miscellaneous notes and papers that were previously enclosed in the notebooks. Among these papers are six pharmaceutical pamphlets advertising the antiseptic glycol-thymoline, with testimonials from dentists.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Caspar Wistar lectures on chemistry, circa 1790 (inclusive)

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1 volume

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A volume comprising undated manuscript notes on chemistry kept by Christopher Heydrick, circa 1790.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Benjamin Rush lecture notes, 1783-1810, undated (inclusive)

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4.2 linear feet (5 boxes)

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The Benjamin Rush lecture notes consist of 34 notebooks kept by medical students at the University of Pennsylvania, which record the content of academic lectures delivered by Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813). Rush, a socially and politically prominent physician who lived and practiced in Philadelphia, served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1769 to 1813. The handwritten lecture notes in this collection (recorded between 1783 and 1810) present the era's conventional medical wisdom on the causes, symptoms and cures of a range of diseases and disorders.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Samuel F. Earl notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush, 1810 (inclusive)

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0.1 linear_foot (1 volume)

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Samuel F. Earl (1790 or 1792-1819 or 1821) was a physician who studied at the University of Pennsylvania and practiced in Annville, Pennsylvania. This collection consists of one volume of lecture notes taken by Earl in November and December, 1810, at Benjamin Rush's lectures on physiology, including attention to the circulatory, respiratory, vocal, digestive, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

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Samuel J. Gummere lecture notes, Undated

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0.02 linear ft. (1 folder )

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Collection contains one lithographic print of Samuel J. Gummere along with assorted lecture notes.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

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Notes upon lectures by Dr. Meigs, 1834 (inclusive)

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1 volume

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Seven hand-sewn bifolia comprising a volume of lecture notes on obstetrics recorded by an unknown student from April to October 1834.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]