Syllabus of the Course of Lectures on Materia Medica and Pharmacy Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia: Printed by Lydia R Bailey, 1840 & 1847. Later printings.. Three quarter leather over horizontal ribbed cloth; three quarter red leather over marbled boards.
. Good; some spotting; moderate wear to the bindings.. 8vo, I - [4], [1] - 69 pp.; II - [4], [1] - 70 pp.

This handbook was meant to be used in conjunction with Wood's lectures. It is an outline presentation of all the botanical and mineral elements utilized in the Dispensatory of the United States. Both copies are heavily annotated and interleaved throughout. The 1840 edition was once owned by Henry Race who is responsible for the notes. He took his medical degree from the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1843 and practiced medicine in Pittstown, NJ. Race went to the gold fields of California in 1849 and returned to Pittstown in 1851 to practice medicine. The edition of 1847 has been entirely reset and revised from that of 1840. It bears the notes of Claudius Mastin who was born in Huntsville, AL and completed his medical degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1849. He then travelled to Europe and returned to Mobile to practice. In 1861 he volunteered for the Confederate Army serving at Shiloh under General Polk and then being appointed to the post of Inspector of the Army of Mississippi. He survived the war and went on to be a noted surgeon in Mobile and later head of the Am. Surgical Assoc. in 1890 (see Kelly & Burrage). Both copies of the Syllabus offered here have extensive notes throughout and provide considerable insight to the teachings of Wood. Both copies were printed by Lydia Bailey, one of the most accomplished printers in post-colonial America. She took over her husband's business in 1808 at a time when his trade was at its nadir. She, a master printer, soon proved a commercial success and at its peak employed 40 or more people in the firm. See Nipps, Checklist .... for Bailey.