[MANUSCRIPT - MEDICINE]. PLUMB, Ovid. "Notes from the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman, M. D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Course of 1814-1815."   -- "Notes From the Lectures of Nathaniel Chapman M.D. Professor of the Materia Medica In the University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia Course of 1814-15." -- "Notes taken at the New York Eye Infirmary by Ovid Plumb 1821&2 Montgomery House Barclay Street No 65." New York, 1821 and later.  

3 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (196 x 158 mm or smaller). Comprising some 450pp., in English, in ink (Some minor browning.) Contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards (some light wear). Provenance: Scoville Memorial Library Salisbury Connecticut (stamps).  

Dr. Ovid Plumb M.D. (1787-1856) spent most of his life in Connecticut.   Chapman and Barton were noted physicians at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chapman later became the first president of the American Medical Association in 1848. Barton had been professor of materia medica from 1796 until 1812, and he succeeded Dr. Benjamin Rush as Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine.   Barton published his books on materia medica in 1798 and 1804, and Chapman published his in 1817.  

Plumb's lecture notes from his coursework in Philadelphia include sections on "Modus operandi of medicines generally," "Sympathy," "Emetics," "Cathartics,'" Diuretics," and "Bitters & Astringents." Each section includes a number of plant and chemical remedies.   The third volume comprises Plumb's notes from his visits to the New York Eye Infirmary.   The volume also includes information on fruit trees grown on the Plumb farm.


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