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Cheston, Daniel Murray, 1843-1919.
Notes on Prof. F.G. Smith’s lectures on physiology and the
institutes of medicine,
University of Penna., 1863-1864.
2 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.
Francis Gurney Smith was born on 8 March 1818 in Philadelphia to Francis Gurney
and Eliza (Muckie) Smith. On 6 April 1878 Smith died in Philadelphia. Smith
received an A.B. (1837) and M.D. (1840) from the University of Pennsylvania. He
was a Resident Physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane (1841), and
set up private practice in Philadelphia specializing in obstetrics and
gynecology. A popular lecturer, Smith held the positions of Lecturer on
Physiology in the Philadelphia Association for Medical Instruction (1842-1852),
Chair of Physiology at the Pennsylvania Medical College (1852-1863), and
Professor of the Institutes of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
(1863-1877). Smith was on the first medical staff of the Episcopal Hospital
(1853) and served on the staff of Pennsylvania Hospital (1859-1864). During the
Civil War, he was Medical Director of the Christian Street Military Hospital
(1861-1863). Smith edited the Philadelphia Medical Examiner for nine
years (1849-1854). He was the first President of the Obstetrical Society of
Philadelphia (1868-1872) and served a term as Vice-President of the American
Medical Association (1870). Smith was elected a Fellow of the College of
Physicians on 6 May 1845.
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
Two volumes of notes on physiology lectures by Francis Gurney Smith, with a
continuation of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine by William
Pepper. Vol. one contains Smith’s lectures dated 14 October 1863 to 11 January
1864. Vol. two contains Smith’s lectures dated 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.15
February 1864 to 25 February 1864, and Pepper’s lectures dated 15 to 27
February 1864.
Provenance
Gift of Dr. D.M. Cheston.
1863-1864.
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Call no. 10a/238 Acc. 158484-5
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Cheston, Daniel Murray, 1843-1919.
Notes on Prof. F.G. Smith’s lectures on physiology and the institutes of
medicine,
University of Penna., 1863-1864.
2 v.
Vol.
1 Notes on physiology lectures delivered by Francis Gurney Smith, dated 14
October 1864 to 11 January 1865 (119 pages). Lectures cover the topics of
general physiology of life forms, reproduction, digestion, blood, respiration,
and circulation.
2 Continuation of notes on physiology lectures delivered by Francis Gurney
Smith, dated 15 to 25 February 1865 (19 pages at front). Lectures cover the
topics of the nervous system and the senses. Also contains a continuation of
notes on William Pepper’s lectures on the theory and practice of medicine,
dated 15 to 27 February 1865 (74 pages, at end, in reverse). Lectures cover the
topics of diabetes, dropsy, diseases of the skin, and diseases of brain and
spinal
cord.
1863-1864.
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