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Davidge First Volume: Dr. Davidge's Lectures on the Institutes and Dr. Potter's Lectures

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Davidge First Volume
Davidge First Volume: Dr. Davidge's Lecutes on the Institutes
Davidge First Volume: Dr. Potter's Lectures
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This volume includes handwritten lecture notes from Dr. John B. Davidge's and Dr. Nathaniel Potter's courses at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The two lectures start in opposite sides of the volume; running from front to back is Dr. John B. Davidge's lectures and running from back to front is Dr. Nathaniel Potter's lectures. To help the user the volume has been split in two, Part A (Davidge) and Part B (Potter). The notes are available in the Internet Archive, see links.

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This volume includes handwritten lecture notes from Doctor John Beale Davidge’s lectures on the Institutes (theory of medicine). Dr. Davidge was a founder of and professor of Anatomy at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine. The volume is undated and the notetaker is unknown. It includes notes on fevers, inflammation, catarrh (cold), croup, and cynanche.
The Davidge lectures are part a of the 1st Davidge Volume as part b starts from the back of the volume and moves toward the middle of the volume. Part a and part b come together to form one physical volume labeled Davidge Volume 1. Both parts include indexes to the lectures.
Pages have been torn out between pages 44 and 53.
This volume includes handwritten lecture notes from Doctor Nathaniel Potter, professor and founder of the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The volume is undated and notetaker is unknown. It includes notes on fevers and their cures, cholera, dysentery, cynanche and the pulse.
The Potter lectures are part b of a volume titled 1st Davidge Volume. This part starts from the back of the volume and moves toward the middle of the volume. Part a and part b come together to form one physical volume labeled Davidge Volume 1. Both parts include indexes to the lectures.
The volume is undated but Dr. Davidge died in 1829 so the volume had to have been produced between 1812 and 1829.
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