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

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

Harvard Medical School

Jackson, James, 1777-1867 (author)

Cummings, Sumner

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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

Jackson, James, 1777-1867

1816

Cummings, Sumner

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Havard Medical Library Rare Books Collection (R746.M4H35 1816, c. 7)

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