Call no. 10a/20                                                                                                                                    Acc. 51395
(Hirsch 120)                                                                                                                                        03/22/1910


Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876.
   [Notes for a medical history of the revolutionary army, ca.1840].
   1 v.


Biography

Joseph Carson, Philadelphia, Pa., physician and educator, was born on 19 April 1808. He married (1) Mary Goddard, in 1841 and then (2) Sarah Hollingsworth, in 1848, by whom he had four children. Joseph Carson died on 30 December 1876. After attending the University of Pennsylvania and receiving an A.B. in 1826 and M.D. in 1830, Carson became a resident at Pennsylvania Hospital. He was a physician at Pennsylvania Hospital, 1849-1854, professor of materia medica at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1836-1850, and professor of materia medica and therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania, 1850-1876. In 1869, he published A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Joseph Carson became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1838 and was also a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.

Scope and Contents

One volume of notes on the history of medicine of the revolutionary army. Includes transcriptions and digests of documents written between June 1775 and December 21, 1776.

Provenance

Given to the College of Physicians by the heirs of Joseph Carson.




[ca. 1840].
1 v.

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