Lecture notes

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.

Volume of notes taken by an unidentified student on the lectures of Joseph Carson on materia medica, William Pepper on the theory and practice of medicine, and Henry H. Smith on surgery in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1862 December 2-1863 January 29, and R. A. F. Penrose on obstetrics at Philadelphia Hospital, 1862 December 10-1863 February 6. Three case descriptions presented by J. M. Da Costa at the hospital are also included.

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.

Volume contains notes taken by an unnamed student on lectures of Philip Syng Physick on surgery, probably in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, circa 1805. The lectures are numbered 1-14 in part 1 and 15-26 in part 2. Major subjects are: inflammation; ulcers; the treatment of fractures, wounds, and head injuries; diseases of the eye and cataract surgery; and amputation. Index to subjects included in part 2.

One volume of notes on obstetrics lectures given by Thomas Young at the University of Edinburgh. Includes table of contents. Incomplete, lacks p. 46-50, 76-91, 180-181, 226-248, 268-271, and 307-318.