Call no. 10a/21                                                                                                                                      Acc. 51396
(Hirsch 117)                                                                                                                                          03/23/1910


Carson, Joseph, 1808-1876.
   Introductory lecture on therapeutics, [1845] / by Joseph Carson.
   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 ([18] leaves) of notes on a general therapeutics lecture.

Provenance

Source unknown.




[1845].
1 v.

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