Finding Aid for the John Runkel Notes on Philip Syng Physick Lectures Biomed.0386
Finding aid prepared by Courtney Dean, 2020.
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Title: John Runkel notes on Philip Syng Physick lectures
Creator:
Runkel, John
Source:
Palinurus Antiquarian Books
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0386
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(1 volume)
Date: circa 1815
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Palinurus Antiquarian Books, 2015.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
7574840
Administrative/Biographical History
"Dr. John Runkel for a time studied theology, but abandoned it for the medical profession. He read medicine and attended several
course of lectures and received his degrees in Maryland. He began the practice of medicine in that State, and in 1821 removed
to Gettysburg [Pennsylvania], where he passed the remainder of his life. Being possessed of means he did not pursue his profession
actively."--History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania (Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886), p.368.
Notes on lectures in surgery and materia medica by Philip Syng Physick, transcribed in a small, very legible hand by medical
student John Runkel. Includes two indexes at end: a general index of terms, and an index of materia medicine mentioned in
the latter pages of text (beginning on p.221). The manuscript date is established from a lecture ticket issued to John Runkel
(1786-1880) in 1815 to attend Physick's lectures on surgery, according to folder 1625, Matriculation and Lecture Ticket Collection
(UPA 3), University Archives, University of Pennsylvania (http://www.archives.upenn.edu/faids/upa/upa3/smallgroups/tickets2.html,
accessed 8 January 2016).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Palinurus Antiquarian Books