Call no. 10a/236                                                                                                  Acc. 158486
(Hirsch 781)                                                                                                           09/23/1942


Cheston, Daniel Murray, 1843-1919.
   Notes on Prof. Wm. Pepper’s lectures on principles and practice of medicine,
   University of Penna., 1864 / D.M. Cheston.
   1 v.


Biography

Daniel Murray Cheston was born on 23 February 1843 in West River, Md. During the Civil War Cheston served in the Army as an acting medical cadet (1862-1864) attached to Episcopal Hospital, Philadelphia. He received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1864 and set up private practice in Philadelphia, where he became a Resident Physician to Episcopal Hospital (1864-1865) and a Physician to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (1865-1885). He was a member of the Pathological Society of Philadelphia, the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the American Medical Association. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians on 1 January 1868. Circa 1905 he retired to Harwood, Md. Cheston died on 22 December 1919 while visiting Philadelphia.

William Pepper was born on 21 January 1810 in Philadelphia to George and Mary (Seckel) Pepper. He married Sarah Platt in 1840, with whom he had seven children. Pepper died on 15 Oct. 1864 in Philadelphia. Pepper received his M.D. from the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1832. After serving at a temporary Asiatic cholera hospital in Bush Hill, Pepper went to Europe to further his medical studies under Pierre Louis and Guillame Dupuytren in Paris, France. He returned to Philadelphia in 1834 to set up private practice. In Philadelphia Pepper was Physician to the Philadelphia Dispensary (1834-1839), Wills Eye Hospital (1839-1841), the Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Blind (1841-1842) and Pennsylvania Hospital (1842-1858). From 1860 to 1864 he held the position of Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Pepper’s prominent writings include Chronic Hydrocephalus (1850) and Scrofulous Inflammation of the Lungs and Pulmonary Condensation (1852). Pepper was a member of the Philadelphia Medical Society and the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians on 7 May 1839.

Scope and Contents

One volume (115 pages) of notes on lectures on the practice of medicine delivered by William Pepper from 14 January 1864 to 15 February 1864. Topics covered include diseases of the respiratory systems and diseases of the pancreas, liver and kidney. Cheston’s notes on Pepper’s lectures appear to be continued at the back of the second volume of his notes on Dr. Francis Gurney Smith’s lectures on physiology (10a 238).

Provenance

Given to the College of Physicians by Dr. Cheston.




1864.
1 v.

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