Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard

Medical School and Massachusetts General

Hospital and physician's daybook MSS 2/130
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Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

 Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook MSS 2/130

Table of Contents

Summary Information .................................................................................................................................... 3

Biographical / Historical ................................................................................................................................ 3
Scope and Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 3
Administrative Information ............................................................................................................................ 4
Controlled Access Headings .......................................................................................................................... 4

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 Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook MSS 2/130

Summary Information

Repository: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of

Philadelphia
Creator: Hutchins, Samuel
Title: Samuel Hutchins Notes on lectures from Harvard Medical School and
Massachusetts General Hospital and physician's daybook
ID: MSS 2/130
Date [inclusive]: 1839-1841
Physical Description: 1 volume 129 pages
Language of the English
Material:

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Biographical / Historical

Samuel Hutchins, Connecticut physician, was born in Seekonk, Mass., on 3 June 1818. He was the son
of physician Theophilus Hutchins. Hutchins married Ellen Weatherhead in 1850; they had four daughters
and one son. Samuel Hutchins died of angina pectoris on 16 Jan. 1886 at Danielsonville, Conn. Hutchins
studied medicine with his father and L. Miller of Providence, R.I. He then entered Harvard Medical
School and received his M.D. in 1841. Hutchins practiced medicine in Norton, Mass., then, in 1842, in
Danielsonville, Conn., where he remained until his death. He was the Windham County examiner for the
U.S. Pension Bureau.

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Scope and Contents

Notes taken by Samuel Hutchins on lectures at Harvard Medical School and clinics at Massachusetts
General Hospital, 1839 Jan. 10-1839 Feb. 5 (pp. 1-123), and Hutchins daybook from medical practice
in Norton, Mass., 1841 Apr. 25-1841 Aug. 14 (pp. 124-129). Lecturers are: Jacob Bigelow on clinical
medicine and materia medica; Walter Channing on midwifery; George Hayward on surgery; and John
Ware on theory and practice of physic.

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Administrative Information

Publication Statement
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Palinurus Books. Address--P.O. Box 15923, Philadelphia, PA 19103. Method
of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--07/03/1990. Accession number--1990-087: Purchase
price--$500.00.

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Controlled Access Headings

Daybooks
Lecture notes
Materia Medica
Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting
Medicine -- Practices
Midwifery
Surgery
Bigelow, Jacob
Channing, Walter
Harvard Medical School
Hayward, George
Massachusetts General Hospital
Ware, John

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