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St. Clair Streett notes on the lectures on Benjamin Smith Barton
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St. Clair Streett of Maryland was a student in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania during the 1810-1811 and 1811-1812 academic sessions. He practiced medicine in upper Baltimore County, Md., and was a friend of Benjamin Rush.
Student notes on lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton on botany and materia medica at University of Pennsylvania, 12 November 1811 to 22 February 1812, by St. Clair Streett. Subjects are considered under headings: astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, conifera, siliquosa, alliaciae, errhines, and sialogogues. Includes observations on medical uses of opium.
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