[Manuscript lectures; a collection of manuscript notes on various medical topics, in the same hand, [18--?].

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[Manuscript lectures; a collection of manuscript notes on various medical topics, in the same hand, [18--?].

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Contents. pam. 1. (Described on flyleaf as Lectures on physiology; no caption-title) 41 numb. lectures, no. 1 incomplete at beginning, no. 41, at end; p. 1-331. Probably a transcription of the lectures of William Shippen, since occasional passages correspond word for word with Shippen's lectures as transcribed by Wm. McWilliams in 1777. -pam. 2. (Descr. on flyleaf as Lectures on midwifery; so also its caption-title) 59 p.; 12 numb. lectures. Pages 357-361, bound before pam. 3 may be a continuation of pam. 1. -pam. 3 Descr. on flyleaf and its own t.p. as Lectures on materia medica by Adam Kuhn. 157 p. Begins with a classification of materia medica by its uses, both in Latin and English; discusses each category. Corresponds closely in some passages to Kuhn's Lectures as transcribed by Marcus Kuhl (in 1790); material has been reorganized. -pam. 4. Lectures on physiology by Dr. John Morgan. 65 p. -pam. 5. Lectures on the practice of physic [by Dr. Morgan] 78 leaves. - pam. 6. The introduction to natural philosophy. December 27, 1969. [60] p. Concerned chiefly with matter, motion and mechanics.

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