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Papers, 1808-1841 (bulk 1808-1814).
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 448
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Briscoe, John Hanson, 1789-1855.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- Admission tickets.
- Lecture notes.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gifts of Earl L. Jackson, Jr. (Charles Town, W. Va.), 2002 and 2004.
- Physical Description:
- 13 volumes + 82 leaves
- Place of Publication:
- 1808-1841
- Biography/History:
- John Hanson Briscoe was born in Chaptico, St. Mary's County, Maryland, on December 10, 1789, and he died in Baltimore, Maryland, in September 1855. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1811, served as a Naval officer and was a practicing physician. The younger John Briscoe was born in 1817, also studied at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, and died in 1871.
- Summary:
- Comprises 11 volumes plus 30 leaves of lecture notes taken by John Hanson Briscoe while a student at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Department, 1808-1811. Includes lecture notes from courses taught by Benjamin Rush on therapeutics, and courses taught by Benjamin Smith Barton, Philip Syng Physick, John Redman Coxe and others. Also includes Briscoe's admissions cards to University of Pennsylvania medical lectures, 1808-1810 (19 items), and two drafts of Briscoe's 1811 dissertation on tetanus. There is a second set of admissions cards 1838-1839 (19 items) for a John Briscoe and two notices for examinations passed by the younger Briscoe in 1841. Also includes 4 letters from John F. Christian of New Kent, Maryland to John Hanson Briscoe discussing medical cases and family and personal matters, 1810-1813, and letters from L[amont?] Fee, F.K. Rogers, and Charles F. Snyder.
- OCLC:
- 155922824
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