Lecture notes on medicine
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- Title
- Lecture notes on medicine
- Author
- Dr Samuel Jackson The
- Publication year listed
- 1824
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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Lecture notes on medicine
Author: Trevor, Joseph
Year: 1824
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 498. 1824. This collection contains lecture notes on pathology, diagnosis, and treatments, including prescriptions, taken at the University of Pennsylvania Medical School from 1824 to 1826 in courses taught by Dr. Samuel Jackson. The lecture notes include frequent references to Dr. Nathaniel Chapman, a professor to whom Jackson was made assistant in 1827.A portion of the volume is in question and answer format. For example, under the condition Asthma, questions such as What is asthma?, What are the causes?, etc. are asked and followed by the answers. By page 36, this format changes to a more standard narrative of the lectures.Lectures addressed bilious pleurisy, peripneumonia rotha, asthma, angina pectoris, pertussis, phthisis pulmonalis, cynanche trachialis, dropsy, atonic dropsy, ascitis, hydrothorax, scrophula, marasmus, hydrocephalus, cynanche laryngea, cynanche tonsillaris, cynanche parotidea (mumps), scarlet fever, measles, variola or small pox, gout, rheumatism, hematuria, hemorrhoides or piles, diseases of the digestive system, drunkenness, exanthemata, diseases of the cutaneous system, erysipelas,