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Congressional Record, 30th Congress, 1st Session, Misc. No 150: Memorial Of D. L. Dix, Dorothea Lynde Dix

Dorothea Lynde Dix Pamphlets

Dorothea Dix addresses the U.S. Senate, advocating for the mentally ill.

An Inaugural Dissertation On Cynanche Trachealis Submitted To The Faculty Of Jefferson Medical College Of Philadelphia, For The Degree Of Doctor Of Medicine., James F. Noyes

Jefferson Medical College Theses

No abstract provided.

Letter From Mary Custis Lee To Dr. Stabler Requesting Laudanum And Opodeldoc, No Date., Mary Custis Lee

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Mary Custis Lee asks for medicines on behalf of her mother Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis.

On Digestion, Anonymous .

Jefferson Medical College Theses

No abstract provided.

Charles Carroll Of Carrollton Writes About Flour Prices, His Daughter And Her Illness, And The Weather, 1829, Charles Carroll

Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection

Charles Carroll of Carrollton was a wealthy Maryland planter and an early advocate of independence from Great Britain. He was a continental Congress delegate and a US Senator for Maryland. He was the last signer of the Declaration of Independence to die. This letter was written 3 years before his death at age 95. The Mrs. Harper he writes about it most likely his daughter, the widow of Robert Goodloe Harper.

An Inaugural Dissertation On The Properties Of The Apocynum Cannabinum, (Indian Hemp;) Submitted To The Trustees, President, And Medical Faculty Of Jefferson College., M. L. Knapp

Jefferson Medical College Theses

No abstract provided.

Notes On Arguments For A Charter For The Jefferson Medical College, George Mcclellan, Md

Manuscripts and Journals

No abstract provided.

Notes From A Lecture On Midwifery By Dr. William Shippen, Jr. April 7, 1798; And Clinical Notes From The Pennsylvania Hospital, December 1799-February 1800, Uriah Derickson

Medical Student and Faculty Lecture Notes

This notebook was written by student Uriah Derickson at Pennsylvania Hospital. The notebook includes notes from a lecture on Midwifery by Dr. William Shippen, Jr. that were taken on April 7, 1798. Shippen was a professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital from 1774-1806. He pioneered courses in midwifery despite opposition, and warned against the use of instruments in childbirth (Penn University Archives & Records Center). The notebook also contains clinical notes written at the Pennsylvania Hospital under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Rush and Dr. Philip Syng Physick. The notebook mentions that on February 26, …

De Ascite, Thomas Marten, David Ruhnkenius

Lecture Notes

This thesis is bound with Volume 2 of Gustavus Richard Brown's handwritten notes of William Cullen's Lectures on Physiology.

De Variolarum Insitione, Ephraim Howard

Lecture Notes

This thesis is bound with Volume 2 of Gustavus Richard Brown's handwritten notes of William Cullen's Lectures on Physiology.

Lectures On Physiology By William Cullen, Gustavus Richard Brown

Lecture Notes

Handwritten notes of William Cullen's lectures taken by an American student, Gustavus Richard Brown.

Lectures On Physiology By William Cullen, Gustavus Richard Brown

Lecture Notes

Handwritten notes of Cullen's lectures taken by an American student, Gustavus Richard Brown.

Via Recta Ad Vitam Longam : Or, A Plain Philosophicall Demonstration Of The Nature, Faculties, And Effects Of All Such Things As By Way Of Nourishments Make For The Preservation Of Health, With Divers Necessary Dieteticall Observations; As Also Of The True Use And Effects Of Sleep, Exercise, Excretions And Perturbations, With Just Applications To Every Age, Constitution Of Body, And Time Of Yeere ... Whereunto Is Annexed ... A Necessary And Compendious Treatise Of The Famous Baths Of Bathe, With A Censure Of The Medicinable Faculties Of The Water Of Saint Vincent's Rocks Neere The City Of Bristoll. As Also An Accurate Treatise Concerning Tobacco, Tobias Venner

Rare Books at James White Library

The baths of Bathe" and "A briefe and accurate treatise concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco" have special title pages dated 1637. Imperfect: p. 265-272 mutilated.

Rb005: Anatomia In Qua Tota Humani Corporis Fabrica... Amstelodami, Ioannes Ianssonius, 1617, Andreas Vesalius 1514-1564, Thomas Geminus D. 1562

Anatomical Texts

A paper affixed to the rear free endpaper of the item states that is edition contains “fine reproductions of the Gemini plates.”

“Thomas Geminus was a a pseudonym for Thomas Lambrit, an engraver and printer…shown as active from about 1540; he died in May 1562.” http://www.arsanatomica.lib.ed.ac.uk/geminus.html accessed 11/20/2012. Geminus (Lambrit) printed Compendiosa totius anatomiae delineation aere exarata in 1545 copied from Vesalius’ 1543, De humani corporis fabrica . (Wellcome Library catalog, accessed 11/20/2012.)

This book is a 1617 reproduction of the engraved copperplates which Lambrit himself copied from the original woodblock prints of the Vesalius’ book.

Because the illustrations were …

Simulated Science: Clinical Microbiology Lessons With Operation Outbreak, Melissa Poua

Open Educational Resources

This resource includes suggested teaching materials, posters and other visual aids, and two worksheets in epidemiology and virology, respectively. The target audience for this resource is healthcare majors in clinical microbiology courses. The laboratory activities are adapted to work with a free hands-on teaching phone application (Operation Outbreak) that models an outbreak in real-time, allowing the students to explore interventions and mitigation strategies.

Further details and instructions.