Lectures on medicine : manuscript, [ca. 1815-1825]

Alternate Title:

Materia medica, vol. 1.

Name:

Briscoe, John Hanson, 1789-1855

Timespan:

19th century

Date:

1815

Description:

Notes for course of 62 lectures in Materia medica in Philadelphia, probably at the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine. Neither the lecturer nor the writer of the notes is identified. Lectures are written in the first person and appear to be the notes of a physician rather than a student. They follow the format of John Syng Dorsey's lectures on materia medica, beginning with "Animal life," "Sympathy," continuing with diet and the nutritive value of certain foods, diseases, bloodletting, emetics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialagogues, emenagogues, anthelmintics, cathartics, stimulants, antispasmodics, tonics, and astringents. Considerable discussion of the uses of mercury compounds and opiates; includes recipes.; Frequently cited are the opinions and cases of Dr. Physick, Dr. Dorsey, Dr. Rush, Dr. Barton, Dr. Chapman, and Dr. Coxe, among others, including discussions of Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic in 1793.

Language:

English

Provenance:

Provenance: [M?] Mend[?] Huston (crossed out); H. H. Kreider, M.D.; Sold by Carmen D. Valentino (Philadelphia), 2002.; Huston, Robert M. (Robert Mendenhall), 1795-1864, former owner.; Kreider, H. H., former owner.

Subject:

Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815; Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853; Coxe, John Redman, 1773-1864; Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818; Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837; Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; University of Pennsylvania. -- Department of Medicine; Materia medica; Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 19th century; Yellow fever; Medicine -- Study and teaching

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); lecture notes; recipes

Physical Description:

1 volume

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

No title or attribution in manuscript, title on spine "Materia Medica, Vol. 1;" leaf or leaves missing at the beginning.; Appears to be written in one hand, although the size and spacing of the writing varies considerably; not in the hand of John Redman Coxe. Comparison with handwriting of lecture notes taken by John Hanson Briscoe, Ms. Coll. 448, suggests that this volume may have been compiled by Briscoe.; No dates; the recent deaths of Dr. Samuel Duffield [1814] and Dr. Barton [1815] are alluded to; the manuscript may date from 1815.; Pagination: [4 ff. blank], pp. 1-519 with some errors in pagination, [520-541] [4 ff. blank]; pagination upper center, written on recto only on odd numbered pages.; Binding: contemporary leather, front cover detached.; Bookseller identifies former owner Huston [f. 1] as Dr. Robert M. Huston who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Medicine in 1825.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 887