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Alexander Knight daybooks

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Held at: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia [Contact Us]19 S. 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

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Alexander Knight (d. 1827) received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1807 and was a physician in the city of Philadelphia.

This collection consists of two volumes of Knight's lists of patients attended, 1813-1815 and 1820-1821. The lists include the date, name, age, residence, cost, diagnosis, and outcome. The first volume also includes a summary table of patients seen by month for the years 1813 through 1817. The second volume includes the profession as well as the referring person of the patient in some of the entries.

Publisher
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Finding Aid Author
Revised by Chrissie Perella
Finding Aid Date
2012; March 2019
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This collection-level EAD record is a product of the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, which was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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