Likenesses of the insane taken for Dr. Jn. K. Mitchell during his service at the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1827-1834

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The work Likenesses of the insane taken for Dr. Jn. K. Mitchell during his service at the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1827-1834 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/Collection, Multimedia, Mixed Materials.

Label

Likenesses of the insane taken for Dr. Jn. K. Mitchell during his service at the Pennsylvania Hospital, 1827-1834

Inclusive dates

1827-1834

Creator

• Mitchell, John Kearsley, 1793-1858

Subject

• Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir), 1829-1914 [Inscribed Donor] (CPP)
• Pennsylvania Hospital(Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Mentally ill -- Pictorial works
• Sketches
• Physiognomy

Genre

• Sketches

Language

eng

Summary

One volume of 22 sketches of mental patients at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Most sketches give the patient's name

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Cataloged

Biographical or historical data

John Kearsley Mitchell, was born on 12 May 1793 in Shepherdstown, Va., the son of Alexander and Elizabeth (Kearsley) Mitchell. Mitchell received an A.B. from the University in Edinburgh and an M.D. in 1819 from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. From 1820-1821, Mitchell served as a ship's surgeon before settling in Philadelphia. He became professor of medicine and physiology at the Medical Institute of Philadelphia in 1824. He also lectured in chemistry from 1833-1838 at the Franklin Institute and was professor of medicine at the Jefferson Medical College from 1841-1858. Mitchell was the first to describe spinal arthropathies in 1831. His other notable works include a book of poetry, Indecision, a Tale of the Far West and other poems (1839) and a medical treatise, On the Crytogamous Origin of Malarious and Epidemical Fevers (1849). In 1822 Mitchell married Sarah Matilda Henry, a union that produced 9 children including the eminent physician, S. Weir Mitchell. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1827. On 14 Apr. 1858, Mitchell died in Philadelphia.

Cataloging source

PPC