For the Health of the New Nation: Philadelphia as the Center of American Medical Education, 1746-1868, funded by The Council on Library and Information Resources's (CLIR) Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives program provides access to 140,000 pages of lecture tickets, course schedules, theses, dissertations, student notes, faculty lectures notes, commencement addresses, opening addresses, and matriculation records. These documents, curated from the repositories of six Philadelphia...
The first draft of the constitution and by-laws of the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art in German and translated into English. Other documents included are the centennial program of the Academy and an untitled document in German (not translated). Founded in 1835, the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art opened in Allentown, Pennsylvania to teach homeopathy, the therapeutic system based on the principles of German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)....
Topics: Homeopathy, Alternative medicine, Homeopathic physicians, Medical education
An address at the opening of the North American Academy of Homeopathic Healing Art by Constantine Hering. Included are both German and English translations. Constantine Hering is considered the father of homeopathy in America, founding several schools and organizations devoted to teaching homeopathy, including the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art in 1835 and the Hahnemann Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1848. The North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art...
Topics: Homeopathy, Alternative medicine, Homeopathic physicians, Medical education, North American Academy...
Pages 169-240. View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine, Medical education, Rheumatism, Toothache, Gout, Exanthemata, Smallpox, Chickenpox,...
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th...
Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Botany, Agriculture, Natural history
View item in APS Digital Library!
Topics: Dysentery, Medicine, Medical education, Intestines--Diseases, Fever, Surgery, Dissection, Cholera,...
Pages 241-320; 345-352. View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine, Medical education, Scarlatina, Scarlet fever toxin, Epidemics, Communicable diseases,...
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania,...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medical education, Diseases, Yellow fever, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Barton, Benjamin...
This autobiography is separated into eight volumes. The autobiography relates Rush's experiences in college and medical school; his meetings with notable doctors; his life in Scotland, England, and France; his medical views; the military and politics during the Revolutionary War; and brief sketches of personalities of that period. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine--United States--History--18th century, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th...
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medical sciences, Human anatomy, Human skeleton, Musculoskeletal system, Thoracic vertebrae,...
This autobiography is separated into eight volumes. The autobiography relates Rush's experiences in college and medical school; his meetings with notable doctors; his life in Scotland, England, and France; his medical views; the military and politics during the Revolutionary War; and brief sketches of personalities of that period. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine--United States--History--18th century, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th...
Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Chemistry, Physics, Mineralogy, Natural history
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine, Medical education, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century,...
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century,...
These notes were kept by Ewing of medical lectures he attended, given by Drs. Nathaniel Chapman, John R. Coxe, and Philip S. Physick. The lectures concern fevers, materia medica, surgery, and diagnosis. View in the APS Digital Library!
Topics: Science--United States--19th century, Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837, Medical ethics,...
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century,...
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century,...
These volumes contain notes from lectures taken and given by Caspar Wistar. Subjects include bones, teeth, amputation, and midwifery. View in APS Digital Library!
Topics: Anatomy--Study and teaching, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine--Study and teaching,...
The constitution of the North American Academy of Homeopathic Healing Art in German and English. Also included are capital stock certificates of the Academy. Founded in 1835, the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art opened in Allentown, Pennsylvania to teach homeopathy, the therapeutic system based on the principles of German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). Founded by Constantine Hering, William Wesselheoft, Henry Detwiller, and John Romig, and known as Allentown...
Topics: Homeopathy, Alternative medicine, Homeopathic physicians, Medical education, North American Academy...
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century,...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine, Medical education, University of...
Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Zoology, Natural history
View in APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine, Medical education, University of...
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine, Medical education, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Physicians,...
One volume of notes on Benjamin Rush's practice of physic lectures, dated after 1794, and taken by an unidentified student. Previously attributed to Chapman, (in spite of references in text to Rush as the lecturer), with Robert Alison (M.D. 1819, Penn) who probably never sat under Rush, as note-taker. Topics include fever, bloodletting, and respiratory illnesses.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813, Fever,...
First of two volumes of lecture notes taken by Wilmer Worthington at the University of Pennsylvania on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853,...
Handwritten bound thesis received by the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. As a requirement of the College, each candidate composed a thesis, or essay, in their own handwriting, on the medical subject of their choosing, in order to be considered for the degree of medicine. Essays were also required to be written on thesis paper, of a uniform size, and the alternate pages being left blank. Theses are bound by year (most of the time), however, each individual thesis has its own record....
Topics: Medical education, Medical students, Dysmenorrhea, Salem (N.J.), Thesis, Homeopathy, Homœopathic...
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medical sciences, Physical diagnosis, Fever, Heat, Pulse, Inflammation, Pathology, Medicine and...
One volume (211 pages) of notes on nineteen lectures given by Nathaniel Chapman in 1822 on the physiological aspects of generation, digestion, absorption, blood, respiration, circulation, nutrition, secretion, and sensation.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853,...
Volume 1 of an incomplete set of lecture notes on Philip Syng Physick's surgery lectures, taken by F. Julis LeMoyne. Topics include: diseases, wounds to the face, sutures, bandages, and fractures. Includes index.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837,...
Second of two volumes of notes taken by an unidentified student on the materia medica lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1808-1809.Lecture topics include astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, anthelmintics, emmenagogues, blisters, and their therapeutic use in the treatment of various diseases.Each volume is indexed at end.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815,...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine, Medical education, University of...
This autobiography is separated into eight volumes. The autobiography relates Rush's experiences in college and medical school; his meetings with notable doctors; his life in Scotland, England, and France; his medical views; the military and politics during the Revolutionary War; and brief sketches of personalities of that period. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine--United States--History--18th century, Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government--18th...
One volume (457 leaves) on notes on the physiology lectures of Benjamin Rush delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics cover visiting the sick, the pulse, animal heat, motion, respiration, circulation, the nervous system, sensation, muscles and tendons, sympathy, senses, operations and pleasures of the human mind, digestion, lymphatic system, glands, excretions, nutrition, peculiarities of the sexes, and generation.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813, Physiology
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Fever, Barton,...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Yellow fever, Diseases, Medicine, Perspiration,...
First of three volumes of notes taken by Marcus Killegas Kuhl on the materia medica lectures of Adam W. Kuhn in 1790. Marcus Hillegas Kuhl is listed among University of Pensylvania graduates as having received his A.B. in 1789 and A.M. in 1792. Topics include aromatics, astringents, the use of cold baths as a medical treatment, herbal and vegetable medicine, anti-spasmodics, sialogogues (used to increase saliva production), stimulants, and medicinal tonics.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817, Cholinergic...
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Chemistry, Chemists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Medical education, Charity, Lectures and...
One volume of notes on surgery lectures delivered by Joseph Parrish, taken by William Ashmead. Topics include: inflammation; necrosis; concussions; hernias; diseases and injuries of the spine; and wounds of the cornea.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Parrish, Joseph, 1779-1840, General...
Documents concerning the incorporation of the North American Academy of Homeopathic Healing Art, including a petition of the citizens of the State of Pennsylvania and the act to incorporate the Academy. Also included is a poem about Samuel Hahnemann, known for establishing the homeopathic therapeutic system (written in German with a translation in English). Founded in 1835, the North American Academy of the Homeopathic Healing Art opened in Allentown, Pennsylvania to teach homeopathy, the...
Topics: Homeopathy, Alternative medicine, Homeopathic physicians, Medical education, North American Academy...
Bound minute book containing detailed record of the deliberations of, and resolutions adopted at, stated and special meetings of the faculty of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania. The College was founded in 1848 to provide standardized training in the emerging system of medicine called homeopathy. In 1869 the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann Medical College (founded in 1867) merged to create a new institution called Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia.
Topics: Homeopathy--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia, Medical education, Medical...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Medicine,...
Notes of lectures and experiments made at Paris by Robert Maskell Patterson as a student at the Jardin des Plantes. View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Trees, Shrubs, Natural history
A notebook belonging to James L. Kitchen while studying at the Collège de France. The notebook contains notes from lectures by Rene Laennec and Francois Broussais, and are written in French. James L. Kitchen graduated from the University of Pennsylvania College of Medicine in 1822. After studying medicine in Europe, he came back to Philadelphia in 1824 and became a prominent physician and homeopath. Kitchen played a large role in helping establish the Homeopathic Medical College of...
Topics: Medical education, Medical students, Paris (France), Collège de France
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine, Medical education, University of...
Second of two volumes of notes on lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the topics of therapeutics and the practice of medicine, taken by Thomas Duché Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813, Clinical...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty
Manuscript notebook of notes taken by Benjamin Rush during lectures on chemistry given by William Cullen of the University of Edinburgh. Volume 2 of 3. Benjamin Rush began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania in 1769, and became a professor of medical theory and clinical practice in 1791. He died in 1813.
Topics: Medical education., Pennsylvania -- History -- 1775-1865.
View in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine, Medical education, University of...
Manuscript of what appears to be second volume of a transcription of Chapman's lectures on the practice of medicine. Inscribed on front flyleaf: "Isaac Norris Jr. 2.3.53" and pasted on same page: newspaper clipping, headed "Transfusion of the blood, " with inscription beneath: "Evg. Bulletin, Feb. 8, 1851, G.P. Norris."
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853, Blood...
One volume (64 p.) of an incomplete set of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey. Lectures are numbered 2-8; lecture 2 is dated 17 Nov. 1817. Topics covered include animal life, sympathy, nutrients, vegetable food (grains, roots, fruits), animal food (mutton, wild game, poultry, eggs, fish, shellfish, snake, turtle, milk, dairy products), cooking (pickling, soups, roasting, broiling, frying, stewing), and drinks.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818,...
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medical education, Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813
The contents of this commonplace book of George Green, Sr., divide naturally into three series: medical lecture notes and examination questions, many from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817-1820; copies or drafts of personal correspondence, 1824 and undated; and poetry, literary sentences, and miscellaneous writings, 1858-1860 and undated.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Dorsey, John Syng, Parrish, Joseph,...
35
35
1829
1829
by
Stith, Nicholas L. B.
texts
eye 35
favorite 0
comment 0
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 378.748 POM 45.12. Dissertation submitted to the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For item on the University of Pennsylvania website see: go to Colenda
Topics: Medicine, Dysentery.
52
52
1819
1819
by
Harrison, John P. (John Pollard), 1796-1849
texts
eye 52
favorite 0
comment 0
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 378.748 POM 40.18. Dissertation submitted to the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For item on the University of Pennsylvania website see: go to Colenda
Topics: Medicine, Natural history., Physiology.
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Medicine, Fevers, St. Georges, Chevalier
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topic: Medical Society of Bordeaux
View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Medicine--Societies, etc, Barton, Benjamin Smith,...
Tyler's letter is a lament over his brother's lack of success in medical school. View item in the APS Digital Library !
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, University of Pennsylvania--Faculty, Medicine,...
Includes pasted newspaper clippings and handwritten notes.
Topics: Medical education, Medicine, School of the Soldier, Infantry, Firearms, Philadelphia Inquirer
One volume of notes on lectures on the practice of medicine, delivered by Benjamin S. Barton at the University of Pennsylvania, in either the 1813-14 or 1814-15 session.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815,...
Published lecture notes with interleaved handwritten notes by unknown student.
Topics: Jefferson Medical College, Medicine, College students' writings, Medical education
Topics: Medical education, Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Dissertations, Academic
Second of an incomplete set of lecture notes on the materia medica lectures of Samuel Jackson, along with Jackson's lectures about the stethoscope. Inscribed on p. 350, "This case I saw; R.R. Dorsey"; "Dorsey" also inscribed repeatedly on flyleaves. Also inscribed on flyleaves, "Richard Maris - 1835."
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Jackson, Samuel, 1787-1872, Dorsey,...
First of two volumes of notes on lectures delivered by Benjamin Rush on the topics of therapeutics and the practice of medicine, taken by Thomas Duché Mitchell at the University of Pennsylvania.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Rush, Benjamin, 1745-1813, Clinical...
Session 1858-1859
Topics: Medical education, Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Materia Medica, Therapeutics
34
34
1825
1825
by
Boyd, James Peter
texts
eye 34
favorite 0
comment 0
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 378.748 POM 30.17. Dissertation submitted to the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For item on the University of Pennsylvania website see: go to Colenda
Topics: Medicine, Cold
17
17
1829
1829
by
Woodruff, Robert
texts
eye 17
favorite 0
comment 0
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 378.748 POM 46.23 Pt 2. Dissertation submitted to the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For item on the University of Pennsylvania website see: go to Colenda
Topics: Medicine, Yellow fever, Diseases
31
31
1821
1821
by
Rives, Landon C.
texts
eye 31
favorite 2
comment 0
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, 378.748 POM 31.1. Dissertation submitted to the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. For item on the University of Pennsylvania website see: go to Colenda
Topics: Medicine, Turpentine
First of two volumes of notes taken by an unidentified student on the materia medica lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton, delivered at the University of Pennsylvania from 1808-1809.Lecture topics include astringents, tonics, stimulants, narcotics, emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, anthelmintics, emmenagogues, blisters, and their therapeutic use in the treatment of various diseases.Each volume is indexed at end.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815,...
Letter from John Young to [George] Escol Sellers concerning judgement in a legal case and a medical doctor's "animal magnitism" treatments. View in the APS Digital Library!
Topics: Science--United States--History--19th century, Animal magnetism, Medicine, Law, Philadelphia (Pa.),...
First of two volumes of notes on the materia medica lectures delivered by Adam Kuhn at the University of Pennsylvania, taken by an unidentified student.
Topics: Lecture notes, University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine, Kuhn, Adam, 1741-1817, Bitters,...
Live Music Archive
Librivox Free Audio
Metropolitan Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Internet Arcade
Console Living Room
Books to Borrow
Open Library
TV News
Understanding 9/11
