A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University

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Title:
A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University
Description:
Harvard’s first professor of clinical medicine, James Jackson, found that the time spent with his students on the wards at Massachusetts General Hospital detracted from his formal lecturing, and so he published these brief notes of his lectures on physiology, hygiene, pathology, and therapeutics in 1816. The work proved popular with the students, and Jackson expanded it into the Text Book of a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Physicin 1825. This copy of the Syllabus is interleaved with the manuscript notes of Sumner Cummings (1800-1848), who studied medicine at Harvard during the winter of 1821. Excerpt from James Jackson's A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University with an adjacent interleaved page of manuscript notes by student Sumner Cummings
Creator:
Jackson, James, 1777-1867
Contributor:
Cummings, Sumner
Date:
1816
Format:
Documents
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Harvard Medical Library
Havard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (R746.M4H35 1816, c. 7)
Series:
Harvard Medical Library
Subjects:
Harvard Medical School
Jackson, James, 1777-1867 (author)
Cummings, Sumner
Textbooks
Notes
Extent:
excerpt (2 pages)
Link to Item:
http://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/6560
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Language:
English
Notes:
Gift of the Estate of Dr. J. T. G. Nichols to the Boston Medical Library, 1914
Identifier:
DigID0002414