Details

Subjects:

Bond, Thomas, 1712-1784.
Morgan, John, 1735-1789.
University of Pennsylvania. Department of Medicine.
Medicine -- Study and teaching -- 18th century.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Formulae, receipts, prescriptions.
Medicine -- Study and teaching.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Lecture notes.
Prescriptions.
Manuscripts, American.

Language:

English, with quotations and words in Latin and Greek.

Biography/History:

Apprentice of John Morgan, founder of the medical school of the College of Philadelphia (later the University of Pennsylvania); member of first class of medical graduates of the College of Philadelphia (Bachelor of Medicine, 1768); physician of Harford County, Maryland, and founder of the Harford County Medical Society.

Summary:

A collection of documents from John Archer's medical studies, primarily consisting of case records but also including subject treatises or lecture notes, a report of a post-mortem following the death of a patient from a polyp in his heart, and the text of an address by Archer to a student medical society. Most of the documents are from Archer's studies with John Morgan, but the post-mortem report concerns a patient of Thomas Bond's at Pennsylvania Hospital and the address to the student medical society, which is also marked Pennsylvania Hospital (f. 211r), may also be associated with Thomas Bond.

Contents:

1. f.1r-10r: [Miscellaneous notes].
2. f.16r-48r: An essay on inflammatory fevers.
3. f.50r-74r: A true peripneumony.
4. f.82r-117r: A dissertation on a phthisis pulmonalis.
5. f.122r-136r: De urinis.
6. f.138r-145r: A relation of a polypus being found in the right ventricle of the heart & pulmonary artery, with a particular description thereof, & an attempt to account for the formation, 1766.
7. f.146r-148r: A case of cutaneous eruptive tumors of an infectious nature, 1767.
8. f.149r-150v: Medicines ordered in an asthma.
9. f.158r-167v: A case.
10. f.168r-172r: De usu et abusu concubitus.
11. f.175r-178v: A case of an irregular flow of the menses proceeding from long and unusual uterine discharges, 1767.
12. f.183r-186r: A case of obstructed menses or emansio mensium.
13. f.187r-188r: Directions to be observed in treating the cholic.
14. f.191r-198r: A case of a uterine hemorrhage for which Dr. Morgan was consulted.
15. f.199r-202v: [Questions and answers on physiology].
16. f.207r-211r: [Address to the Hospital Medical Society], 1767 / John Archer.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 212 + iv (modern paper); [1-212]; modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.
Script: Written in the cursive hand of John Archer.
Binding: Modern leather, ca. 1956; when the book was rebound, a calligraphic inscription was added on the first flyleaf: Presented to the University of Pennsylvania by the Class of 1916, Medical School, in honor of their member, John G. Archer, great-great-grandson of the writer, the first graduate of the Medical School, in 1768.
Origin: Written in Philadelphia, 1766-1767.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by John George Archer (Point Coupee Parish, La.; John Archer's grandson) and John Fleming Chamberlain (Natchez, Miss.; John George Archer's nephew); sold by Chamberlain's widow to the American Library Service (New York); acquired by Benjamin Hart (Bridgeport, Conn.) for his medical history collection.
Sold by the Argosy Book Store, probably in 1955, to the Class of 1916, who presented the manuscript to the University of Pennsylvania Library, 1956 (inscription on first flyleaf).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1165

Contributor:

Archer, John George, former owner.
Chamberlain, John Fleming, former owner.
Hart, Benjamin, former owner.

OCLC:

226964646