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Lecture notes, ca. 1794-1810.
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Champneys, Ben. (Benjamin), 1774-1814.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Medicine--Early works to 1800.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--18th century.
- Medicine--Study and teaching--19th century.
- Chemistry--Early works to 1800.
- Chemistry.
- Chemistry--Study and teaching--18th century.
- Chemistry--Study and teaching--19th century.
- Chemistry--Study and teaching.
- Medicine--Study and teaching.
- Genre:
- Lecture notes.
- Manuscripts, American.
- Penn Provenance:
- Signature, B. Champneys, inside front covers of volumes 2 and 3; other signatures, Thomas Cowpers (back flyleaf, v. 1), James McKnight (v. 3, ff. 68, 95v), and Jane Benson Champneys (Benjamin's daughter, v. 3, f. 95v)
- Purchased from Benjamin Champneys Atlee, 2006.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes (292, 251, 263 leaves)
- Place of Publication:
- ca. 1794-1810.
- Biography/History:
- College and medical student at the University of Pennsylvania (A.B. 1792, M.D. 1805); naval surgeon on the frigate Philadelphia commanded by Stephen Decatur, 1800-1801; physician in Salem, New Jersey.
- Summary:
- Three volumes of notes taken from lectures and reading over an extended period of time and bound together at a later date. They are not bound in chronological or subject order and display a variety of foliation and pagination on the formerly independent items. The main subjects are medicine and chemistry, with additional notes on logic, mathematics, and moral philosophy that are probably from Champney's college studies and earlier than the first noted date of 1794. Medical material includes notes from lectures by University of Pennsylvania professors Benjamin Rush, Adam Kuhn, and William Shippen. Reading notes refer to medical and chemical works by William Cullen (1710-1790), John Huxham (1692-1768), Colin Chisholm (1755-1825), Antoine-François de Fourcroy (1755-1809), and Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal (1756-1832). Champneys notes that his notes on Chaptal were made on board the frigate Philadelphia in 1800.
- Notes:
- Bindings in very fragile condition.
- OCLC:
- 84698156
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