Details

Subjects:

Medicine -- United States -- 18th century.
Physicians -- United States -- 18th century.
Physicians.
Medicine.
Harford County (Md.) -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
United States.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Account books.
Manuscripts, American.

Language:

English and Latin.

Biography/History:

After receiving a B.A. and M.A. from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1760 and 1763, Archer studied medicine at the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania) and was one of ten members in the first class to receive the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in 1768. Returning to his origins in Harford County, Maryland, he practiced medicine for forty years and also served in the legislature and judiciary of Maryland.

Summary:

The third in a series of at least eight ledgers in which John Archer recorded patient notes, fees, and debts. The first seven pages are an index of patient names arranged alphabetically, after which the chronological entries of the ledger begin in 1775 and continue to 1783. The last 33 pages, beginning from the end, contain a text in Latin titled "Compendium Logicae," copied by Archer as a student in the 1760s.

Contents:

1. fol. [i-iii], 1r: Patient index.
2. fol. 1v-127v, [i]: Medical records.
3. fol. [ii] verso-[xvii] recto: Compendium logicae.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Foliation: iii + 127 + xxi (paginated 1-33 from the back).
Binding: Contemporary sheep (bookseller's notes), back cover detached, spine damaged, front cover cut off about 47 mm. from spine.
Origin: Written in Harford County, Maryland, between 1775 and 1783, except for the Compendium Logicae at the back, which was probably copied in Baltimore in 1764.

Penn Provenance:

Bequeathed by Archer to the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; stamp on front pastedown of the library of the Medical & Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland.
Sold by Martayan Lan, 2004.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 639

OCLC:

155925488

Access Restriction:

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