Records of events from the commencement of my medical studies in Philadelphia, Oct. 10th, 1840, [by] Geo. Dock. With a record of the principal surgical cases & operations that I have had during my professional life, up to the date of July 1856., 1840-1856.
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Horner, William E. (William Edmonds), 1793-1853
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Philadelphia anatomist. From the description of ALS : Philadelphia, to an unidentified correspondent, 1825 June 16. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122626182 William Edmonds Horner, anatomist, was born on 3 June 1793 in Warrenton, Va., to William and Mary (Edmonds) Horner. On 26 Oct. 1820 he married Elizabeth Welsh of Philadelphia; they had 10 children. He died in Philadelphia on 13 March 1853. Horner studied medicine under John Spence and received his ...
Philadelphia General Hospital
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The Committee on the Celebration at the Philadelphia General Hospital of the 200th Anniversary of the Building of the Philadelphia Almshouse was established in September 1929. The committee, consisting of five members of the Medical Board of the Philadelphia General Hospital, was appointed by the President of the Medical Board, Herman B. Allyn. Joseph McFarland, E. B. Krumbhaar, David Riesman, and Robert G. Torrey were appointed to serve on the committee, with Robert J. Hunter actin...
Dock, George, 1823-1875.
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Dock graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1844, W.E. Horner having acted as his preceptor. Some of Horner's cases are briefly described. Dock served a year as one of the Resident Physicians at Blockley; pasted in at end a "List of operations and remarkable cases in the Blockley Hospital during my residence therein from May 1842 until May 1843." From the description of Records of events from the commencement of my medical studies in Philadelphia, Oct. 10...
