Lecture notes and addresses, 1785-ca. 1819.

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Lecture notes and addresses, 1785-ca. 1819.

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Manuscript lecture notes (9 volumes), taken by students from 1808 to 1817, on Physick's lectures in surgery. Some undated and unsigned. Item 2, volume 2 includes notes from the lectures of John Syng Dorsey, M.D. (1783-1818). All lectures delivered at the University of Pennsylvania. Lecture notes either in the hand of or owned by the following signed names: Leonard Lawrence, James Phillips Freeman, Thomas Hamilton, Russel Clark, and Joseph Fithian.

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Freeman, James Phillips.

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Hamilton, Thomas, 9th Earl of Haddington

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Clark, R. J. (Russell J.)

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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 ...

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...

Lawrence, Leonard

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Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837

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American physician considered to be the father of American surgery. From the description of Letters : Philadelphia, Pa., to Henry W. Physick, Rising Sun, Md., and Wilmington, Del., 1810 June 29 and 1821 Oct. 25. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 24851622 Philadelphia-born surgeon. A former student of Dr. Adam Kuhn, Physick became known as the "Father of American Surgery." He lectured on surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, where the position of "chair of surgery...

Fithian, Joseph.

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