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<p>Second of two volumes of the Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania collection (MSS 2/185). Lecturers include John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817.The bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2).After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics.Volume 2 contains brief notes on Chapman’s lectures, nos. 1-24.Both volumes include a table of contents.
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<br>Subjects: Lecture notes; University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine; Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853; Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818; Diseases; Materia Medica; Medicine--Practices; Nutrition</div>
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Shivers, Thomas, Jr.</div>
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