Thomas Duché Mitchell notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania, 1809-1811

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Thomas Duché Mitchell notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania, 1809-1811

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1809-1811

Creator

• Mitchell, Thomas Duché, 1791-1865

Subject

• Dorsey, John Syng, 1783-1818
• Lecture notes
• Materia medica
• Barton, Benjamin Smith, 1766-1815
• Surgery
• University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Medicine
• Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837

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• Lecture notes

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eng

Summary

One volume containing 447 leaves of notes on the materia medica lectures of Benjamin Smith Barton, dated 10 November 1809 to 2 March 1810, and 371 leaves on the surgery lectures of Philip Syng Physick and John Syng Dorsey, dated 15 November 1809 to 1 March 1810. Each section contains an index

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Thomas Duché̌ Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1791. He received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1812. Mitchell established private practice in Philadelphia, where he held the position of Physician to the Lazaretto (1813-1816). He was appointed Professor of Animal and Vegetable Physiology at St. John's Lutheran College, Philadelphia (1812) before holding successive professorships of chemistry at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio (1831), the Medical College of Ohio (1832), the Medical Institute, Louisville, Ky. (1837) and Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. (1837-1839). He later held the position of Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics at Transylvania University (1839-1849). In 1849 he returned east to become the Professor of Medicine, Obstetrics, and Medical Jurisprudence at the Medical College of Philadelphia (1849-1857). He left this position to become Professor of Materia Medica at Jefferson Medical College (1857-1865). A prolific writer, Mitchell's more notable writings include Elements of Chemical Philosophy (1832); Hints on the Connexion of Labor with Study, as a Preventive of Diseases Peculiar to Students (1832); and Materia Medica and Therapeutics (1850).

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