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Lectures on medicine : manuscript, [ca. 1815-1825].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Codex 887
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Briscoe, John Hanson, 1789-1855.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815.
- Barton, Benjamin Smith.
- Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853.
- Chapman, Nathaniel.
- Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864.
- Coxe, John Redman.
- Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818.
- Dorsey, John Syng.
- Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837.
- Physick, Philip Syng.
- Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
- Rush, Benjamin.
- University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Materia medica.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century.
- Medicine.
- Yellow fever.
- Medicine--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- lecture notes
- recipes
- Penn Provenance:
- Provenance: [M?] Mend[?] Huston (crossed out); H. H. Kreider, M.D.
- Sold by Carmen D. Valentino (Philadelphia), 2002.
- Physical Description:
- 1 volume
- Other Title:
- Materia medica, vol. 1.
- Place of Publication:
- [ca. 1815-1825].
- Summary:
- Notes for course of 62 lectures in Materia medica in Philadelphia, probably at the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine. Neither the lecturer nor the writer of the notes is identified. Lectures are written in the first person and appear to be the notes of a physician rather than a student. They follow the format of John Syng Dorsey's lectures on materia medica, beginning with "Animal life," "Sympathy," continuing with diet and the nutritive value of certain foods, diseases, bloodletting, emetics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialagogues, emenagogues, anthelmintics, cathartics, stimulants, antispasmodics, tonics, and astringents. Considerable discussion of the uses of mercury compounds and opiates; includes recipes.
- Frequently cited are the opinions and cases of Dr. Physick, Dr. Dorsey, Dr. Rush, Dr. Barton, Dr. Chapman, and Dr. Coxe, among others, including discussions of Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793.
- Notes:
- No title or attribution in manuscript, title on spine "Materia Medica, Vol. 1;" leaf or leaves missing at the beginning.
- Appears to be written in one hand, although the size and spacing of the writing varies considerably; not in the hand of John Redman Coxe. Comparison with handwriting of lecture notes taken by John Hanson Briscoe, Ms. Coll. 448, suggests that this volume may have been compiled by Briscoe.
- No dates; the recent deaths of Dr. Samuel Duffield [1814] and Dr. Barton [1815] are alluded to; the manuscript may date from 1815.
- Pagination: [4 ff. blank], pp. 1-519 with some errors in pagination, [520-541] [4 ff. blank]; pagination upper center, written on recto only on odd numbered pages.
- Binding: contemporary leather, front cover detached.
- Bookseller identifies former owner Huston [f. 1] as Dr. Robert M. Huston who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine in 1825.
- Cited as:
- UPenn Ms. Codex 887.
- OCLC:
- 122477949
- Access Restriction:
- Access to this item is subject to staff review.
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