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Materia Medica

 Subject

Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on the lectures of Eli Ives

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/123
Scope and Contents

Notes by student, possibly Richard O. Flynn, taken from lectures of Eli Ives on materia medica at the Medical Institution of Yale College, 1822-1823. Ives defines materia medica, explains classification system, then describes individual substances and uses according to system in the following order: narcotics, antispasmodics, irritants, tonics, aromatics, astringents, emetics, cathartics, emmenagogues, diuretics, diaphoretics, expectorants, sialagogues, and errhines.

Dates: 1822 - 1823
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Notes on the lectures of John Redman Coxe

 Item — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 389
Abstract John Redman Coxe was born on 16 September 1773 in Trenton, N.J. and died in Philadelphia on 22 March 1864. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1794. Coxe held the positions of Professor of Chemistry (1809-1818) and Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy (1818-1835) at the University of Pennsylvania.One volume of notes (254 pages) taken by an unknown student from a course of lectures on materia medica delivered at the University of Pennsylvania by John...
Dates: 27 November 1824 - 25 February 1825
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Robert Pryor Richardson notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey

 Item
Identifier: 10a 198
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/130
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by Samuel Hutchins on lectures at Harvard Medical School and clinics at Massachusetts General Hospital, 1839 Jan. 10-1839 Feb. 5 (pp. 1-123), and Hutchins’ daybook from medical practice in Norton, Mass., 1841 Apr. 25-1841 Aug. 14 (pp. 124-129). Lecturers are: Jacob Bigelow on clinical medicine and materia medica; Walter Channing on midwifery; George Hayward on surgery; and John Ware on theory and practice of physic.

Dates: 1839 - 1841
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Samuel Knox notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/050
Scope and Contents Samuel Knox’s 1783 abstract of Colin McKenzie’s lectures on midwifery in 1773 and his notes on Adam Kuhn’s lectures on materia medica and Benjamin Rush’s on chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania in 1784-1785.Volume 1 contains Knox’s abstract of Colin McKenzie’s series of 19 lectures describing the history of midwifery, symptoms of pregnancy and labor, typical and atypical births, and postnatal care.While a student at the University of Pennsylvania, Knox may have...
Dates: 1783 - 1785
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents

Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.

Dates: 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

William H. McPherson notes on the lectures of Charles Hemple

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/042
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by William H. McPherson at Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania [Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia] on lectures of Charles J. Hemple, 18571858. Notes include listing of substances, generally poisons or acids, with relevant symptoms and effects on various anatomical groups (cerebral, nervous, inflammatory, cutaneous, gastric, etc.) and antidotes. Volume 1 contains entries A through R; volume 2 contains S through Z and alphabetical listing of other substances.

Dates: 1857 - 1858
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

William S. Wallace notes on the lectures of John Redman Coxe

 Item
Identifier: 10a 37
Scope and Contents

One volume (143 pages) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Redman Coxe. Lectures are dated from Nov. 24, 1821 to Jan. 11, 1822 and cover the topics venesection, emetics, cathartics, anthelmintics, and diuretics.

Dates: 1821 - 1822
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

William Wood Gerhard papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/183
Scope and Contents This small collection of W. W. Gerhard's papers, 1834-1845, documenting his education and early career, contains letters received and sent, some correspondence of his brother, lawyer Benjamin Gerhard, and a few receipted bills and miscellaneous items. The bulk of the collection is composed of letters sent to Gerhard, 1834-1837, from colleagues, many of whom studied with him in Paris, The letters, several in French, describe medical student life and conditions there. Included are letters from...
Dates: 1834 - 1845
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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