Phillip Syng Physick and John Syng Dorsey lecture notes : manuscript.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837, author.

Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818, author.

Contributor:

Speers, J., scribe.

Shaftel, Norman, 1914-1998, former owner.

Albert, Daniel M., former owner.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.

University of Pennsylvania.

Medicine--Study and teaching.

Medicine.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

lecture notes.

Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by cardiologist and book collector Norman Shaftel (Albert notes; owner of Hemlock Books, Neponsit, New York).

Offered for sale at auction as part of the inventory of Hemlock Books (Sale 1858), Swann Galleries (New York), 4 May 2000, lot 306.

Formerly owned by Daniel M. Albert (M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1962; residency in ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, 1963-1966).

Gift of Dr. Daniel M. Albert (Madison, Wisconsin), 2006.

Physical Description:

1 volume (96 pages) : paper ; 18 x 12 cm

Production:

Philadelphia?, 1816.

Summary:

Notes on medical school lectures of Philip Syng Physick and John Syng Dorsey, professors at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine, on topics including luxations, head injuries, cancer, diseases of the eye and throat, hernia, materia medica, and gangrene, dated 15 January 1816-29 February 1816 (p.1, 80), signed J. Speers (p.1). In two gatherings sewn together without a binding.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Bookseller's description annotated by Dr. Albert laid in.

Cited as:

Phillip Syng Physick and John Syng Dorsey Lecture Notes (Ms. Codex 2302). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1528989000