Obstetrics.

Advertisement by W.B. Saunders, Publisher, for the first edition of Dr. Chapman's book. On verso is an advertisement for another book, Outlines of Obstetrics by Charles Jewett, A.M., M.D.

Topics addressed : introduction of premature labor, adherent placenta, influenza, jaundice, maternal syphilis, and rise of temperature in puerperal state.

Anonymous handwritten notes describing the delivery of a female child on 7 Feb. 1854.

Introductory lectures to the course on the Principles and Practice of Surgery, Medical Dept. of Pennsylvania College, 1844 and 1846; valedictory addresses to the graduates of the Medical Dept. of Pennsylvania College, 1852 and 1859; and two pamphlets printed by Gilbert in Sept. 1861 containing testimonial letters in support of Gilbert as candidate for the chair of Obstetrics at Jefferson Medical College.

Anonymous bound notes on 92 patient cases treated, mostly indigent women diagnosed with melancholia, mania, senile dementia and other mental illnesses, or else in the hospital for obstetrical care. Some male patients are also included among the cases. Most cases documented with charts tipped in.

"An essay on the obstetric forceps, their history, description, and why, when, and how to use them, accompanied with thirty-two explanatory sketches."

Notes on midwifery as taught by William Shippen, 1798, and medical notes based on clinical examinations of Drs. Rush and Physic [sic].

Bound handwritten notes by a student believed to be W. Fulton on lectures and clinical cases of Prof. Ellerslie Wallace (obstetrics) and Prof. J. M. Da Costa (medicine).

Notes of lectures and clinics during the 1881-82 session. Subjects include surgery, obstetrics, practice of medicine, anatomy, physiology, materia medica/therapeutics, and chemistry.