Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

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Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817.

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The collection consists chiefly of correspondence of Minor while an assistant to Dr. James Carmichael of Fredericksburg, 1803-1805, and a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. Topics include the study of anatomy, the lectures of Benjamin Rush, professors William Shippen and Caspar Wistar, and studies at the University of Edinburgh by Minor's friends, George Watson and James Alexander, who found their medical studies there disappointing. Of interest are a description of surgery performed by Dr. Carmichael and two other Fredericksburg physicians in 1805; a discussion of Dr. Rush's "unity of disease" vs. Dr. William Cullen's "nosology"; manuscript notes on Rush's theory of the functions of the liver, spleen and pancreas; and an 1810 description of trans-Allegheny lands. Additional correspondents include Robert Briggs, John Lewis, Robert Miller, Peter Minor, Garret Minor, John Quarles, and J. Shelton Watson.

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University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Shippen, William, Jr., 1736-1808

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William Shippen Jr. (October 21, 1736 – July 11, 1808), was the first systematic teacher of anatomy, surgery and obstetrics in Colonial America and founded the first maternity hospital in America. He was the 3rd Director General of Hospitals of the Continental Army. Born in Philadelphia, he studied at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), graduating in 1754. He studied medicine first with his father, then went to England and Scotland and in 1761 earned his medical degree at th...

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813

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Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, and educator and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush attended the Continental Congress. His later self-description there was: "He aimed right." He served as Surgeon General of the Continental Army and became a profess...

Cullen, William, 1710-1790

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Scottish physician and professor of medicine and chemistry at the universities in Glasgow and Edinburgh; regarded as the father of graphic chain formulas. From the description of Dr. Cullen's practice of physic, October 30, 1771. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28981471 Professor of medicine, Glasgow and Edinburgh. From the description of Papers, 1769 and undated. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 35007139 James Tatham was a surgeon of ...

Minor, James, 1785-1828

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Louisa County, Va., physician. From the description of Papers of James Minor, 1801-1817. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958717 ...

Alexander, James, fl. 1801-1817.

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Watson, J. Shelton.

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Watson, George, 1784-1853.

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Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818

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Caspar Wistar taught chemistry at the College of Philadelphia from 1789 to 1792. This College, with the University of the State of Pennsylvania, would become the University of Pennsylvania in 1791. From the description of Lectures : on chemistry, 1790. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122621060 Philadelphia physician. From the description of ALS : to an unidentified correspondent, 1817 July 14. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat r...

Briggs, Robert.

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Carmichael, James, 1771-1831

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Scottish born physician of Fredericksburg, Va. From the description of Papers of Dr. James Carmichael, 1816-1834, and n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 53004307 ...

University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine

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Many students of the Class of 1943 of the School of Medicine participated in the war efforts, either serving in the Navy on the hospital ship or at Hospital Base 20, both operated by the University. From the description of Class of 1943 papers, 1943-1972. (University of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 122528514 ...

Miller, Robert.

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Music publisher. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Miller : oral history, 1958. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122527434 Hatter from Penn Yan, N.Y. From the description of Robert Miller daybook, 1820-1828. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934985 ...

Minor, Garret, 1744-1799

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Quarles, John

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Lewis, John, ca. 1750-

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Minor, Peter, 1783-1827,

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University of Edinburgh. School of Medicine.

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