This collection consists of a rough and finished draft of Coates' lecture, which was delivered before the Phrenological Society of Philadelphia. In it he included a review of Boston professor John C. Warren's work on the nervous system.
Philadelphia physician Benjamin Horner Coates served as the attendant physician and clinical lecturer at Pennsylvania Hospital (1828-1841).
Provenance
Purchased from Hoosier Bookshop for $25.00 and accessioneded, 1/1957 (1563-65ms).
Early American History Note
This collection contains a lecture to the Phrenological Society of Philadelphia delivered by Benjamin Coates in 1823.
General note
This lecture was published in "The Philadelphia Journal of the Medical and Physical Sciences" 7(1823):58-80.
Corporate Name(s)
- Phrenological Society of Philadelphia.
Genre(s)
- Drafts (preliminary versions).
- Educational Material
- Notebooks
Personal Name(s)
- Coates, Benjamin.
- Warren, John Collins, 1778-1856
Subject(s)
- Anatomy, Comparative.
- Education
- Medical illustration.
- Medicine
- Nervous system.
- Phrenology.
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