Notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey, Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, 1816-1817 / by John Y. Clark.

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Notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey, Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, 1816-1817 / by John Y. Clark.

One volume (131, 250, 11 leaves) of notes on materia medica lectures delivered by John Syng Dorsey at the University of Pennsylvania. The lectures are divided into three sections: general therapeutics, bloodletting and materia medica, and Dorsey's classification of materia medica.

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University of Pennsylvania. Dept. of Medicine.

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Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818

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John Syng Dorsey, surgeon, was born in Philadelphia on 23 Dec. 1783. He married Maria Ralston of Philadelphia on 30 Apr. 1807; they had one son and two daughters. Dorsey died of typhus on 12 Nov. 1818. As a child Dorsey received a classical education in Friends schools and studied medicine under his uncle, Dr. Philip Syng Physick. He received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1802. He then traveled to Europe to study medicine in London and Paris for two ye...

Clark, John Yardley

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John Yardley Clark of New Jersey received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. He set up private practice in Philadelphia, where he eventually died. No other information about Dr. Clark could be located. From the description of Notes on the lectures of John Syng Dorsey, Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, 1816-1817 / by John Y. Clark. (College of Physicians of Philadelphia). WorldCat record id: 122540961 ...