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Chemistry

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on lectures from the Medical College in Boston

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/082
Scope and Contents

Volume of notes taken by unnamed student at the Medical College in Boston [Harvard Medical School], 20 Nov. through 14 Dec. 1822. Contains notes on Jacob Bigelow on materia medica; Walter Channing on midwifery; John Gorham on chemistry; James Jackson on theory and practice of medicine; and John Collins Warren on anatomy.

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

Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania

 Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/131
Scope and Contents Student notes taken in three different hands on lectures in University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, 1850-1862. Bulk of volume contains notes on lectures of George Bacon Wood on theory and practice of medicine, 1857, and William Pepper on theory and practice of medicine, 1861-1862. Other lecturers are: Joseph Carson on materia medica, 1851; J. F. Frazer on the steam-engine, 1850; William Gibson on surgery, 1851; Samuel Jackson on institutes of medicine, 1851, 1860, and 1861; and...
Dates: 1850 - 1862
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 Parke notebook

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents

Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities; and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.

Dates: 1767 - 1769
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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