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Penn in the 18th Century School of Medicine Medical Faculty

This exhibit was researched, written and created by Mary D. McConaghy, Michael Silberman, and Irina Kalashnikova in 2004 as part of the celebration of Benjamin Franklin's 300th birthday.

Thomas Bond, c. 1770

Thomas Bond, c. 1770

Arranged chronologically by year of appointment:

Admission ticket, John Morgan’s lectures on materia medica and practice of physic, 1765 Get more image details	John Morgan (1735-1789) A.B. 1757, A.M. 1759 Theory and Practice of Physick, 1765-1775
Admission ticket, William Shippen’s anatomical lectures, 1768 Get more image details	William Shippen, Jr. (1736-1808) Anatomy, Surgery and Midwifery, 1765-1806
Admission ticket, Thomas Bond’s clinical lectures, 1770 Get more image details	Thomas Bond (1712-1784) Lectures in Clinical Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital, instituted in 1766
Admission ticket, Adam Kuhn’s lectures on materia medica, 1770 Get more image details	Adam Kuhn (1741-1817) Materia Medica, Botany, Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1768-1797
Admission ticket, Benjamin Rush’s lectures on chemistry, 1769 Get more image details	Benjamin Rush (1746-1813) Chemistry, Institutes of Medicine, Clinical Practice, Theory and Practice of Medicine, 1769-1813
Admission ticket, C. Wistar’s lectures on chemistry and physiology, 1789 Get more image details	Caspar Wistar (1761-1818) M.D. 1782 Chemistry, Anatomy, Midwifery and Surgery, 1789-1818
Lecture ticket to Benjamin Smith Barton’s course on materia medica, 1807 Get more image details	Benjamin Smith Barton (1766-1815) A.M. (hon.) 1787 Materia Medica, Natural History, Botany, 1789-1815
Admission ticket, James Hutchinson’s lectures on chemistry, c. 1791 Get more image details	James Hutchinson (1752-1793) M.D. 1774 Materia Medica and Chemistry, 1789-1793
	Samuel Powel Griffitts (1759-1826) M.B. 1781 Materia Medica and Chemistry, 1792-1796
Admission ticket, James Woodhouse’s lectures on chemistry, c. 1791 Get more image details	James Woodhouse (1770-1809) A.B. 1787, M.A. 1790, M.D. 1792 Chemistry, 1795-1809
	John Carson (1752-1794) A.B. 1771 Chemistry, 1794

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