Details

Other Title:

Shippen lecture

Subjects:

University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
Anatomy -- 18th century.
Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century.
Medicine -- Study and teaching.
Anatomy.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Manuscripts, American.

Biography/History:

Professor of anatomy and surgery at the University of Pennsylvania (1736-1808); original member of the College of Physicians and member of the American Philosophical Society.

Summary:

Notes of Christopher Heydrick, a student at the University of Pennsylvania circa 1790, taken from the lectures of William Shippen on anatomy. Topics include the definition and origin of anatomy, blood, glands, nerves, reproductive organs, bones, lungs, and heart.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Foliation: Paper, vi + 92 + ii; signatures A-M every sixth leaf beginning on f. 19; [1-92]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines; ruling in red occasionally visible; catchwords at the bottom of each page.
Script: Written in a cursive script.
Binding: Late eighteenth- or early nineteenth-century quarter calf; upper cover detached.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia, circa 1790.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of Louise Heydrick, 1963.

Related Collections:

See also Christopher Heydrick's notes from medical lectures of Benjamin Rush (Ms. Coll. 225, Item 20) and physics lectures of John Ewing (Ms. Coll. 284, Item 3), Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1163.

Contributor:

Heydrick, Christopher, 1770-1856, transcriber.

OCLC:

226390376

Access Restriction:

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