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06/01/1909
Alison, Robert, d. 1854.
Notes on the lectures of B.S. Barton, M.D., 1815 / Robert Alison.
1 v.
Biography
Robert Alison graduated from the Medical Department of the University of
Pennsylvania in 1819 and died in 1854. No other information on Dr. Alison could
be found.
Benjamin Smith Barton, was born February 10, 1766, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
At 14, Barton became a medical student at the College of Philadelphia and later
went to Europe in 1786 to futher his studies at the University of Edinburgh.
Barton returned to Philadelphia without a medical degree in 1789 and set up
private practice. In 1796 he received an honorary M.D. from the Christian-Albrechts
University in Kiel, Germany. From 1789-1815, he served as professor of natural
history and botany at the College of Philadelphia, which was united with the
University of Pennsylvania in 1791. He later became professor of materia medica
and professor of the theory and practice of medicine in 1813. Barton wrote
extensively on the topics of natural history, botany, paleontology, etymology
and medicine. He penned the first basic American textbook on botany, Elements
of Botany, in 1803. In 1805 he founded and edited the Philadelphia
Medical and Physical Journal. As a professional advocate, Barton was
extremely active in the American Philosophical Society, the Philadelphia Linnean
Society, and the Philadelphia Medical Society, serving as its president (1815).
Barton was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians in 1790. On December
19, 1815, Barton died.
Scope and Contents
One volume (24 leaves) of notes on lectures on the practice of medicine
delivered by Benjamin S. Barton at the University of Pennsylvania from January
20 to February 3, 1815.
Provenance
Purchased by the College of Physicians in 1909.
1815.
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