physiology class notebook von dupuy elbert (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Small octavo. Measuring 4½" x 8". Marbled paper covers with "Dr. Holt Physiology" handwritten on the front board. On the verso of the front board is a stamp for the City Hall Book Store in Cincinnati, Ohio. Approximately half of the notebook is filled, roughly 88 pages. Very good with toning and slight edgewear. A school notebook belonging to Elbert S. Dupuy who attended Miami School of Medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio in the late 1800s. This notebook contains notes from a course taught by Dr. Oliver Paxton Holt on Physiology, the study of the normal functions of living organisms or their bodily parts functions, Dupuy took from February to April of 1899. The notes within cover several different body systems, such as the integumentary system, the urinary system, the nervous system, and the sympathetic system, among others. Dupuy provides detailed notes and additionally includes numerous hand-drawn anatomical diagrams to go along with the body parts and systems he was learning about. Miami School of Medicine was founded by Reuben D. Mussey in 1852 after leaving the Medical College of Ohio. Mussey's institution was competition for the Medical College of Ohio throughout the nineteenth century. The school would merge in 1909 with the University of Cincinnati's College of Medicine. Elbert Stevenson Dupuy was born on March 20, 1876 to James Newton Dupuy and Nattie Ann V. Garland in Garrison, Kentucky. He attended Miami Medical College in Cincinnati, Ohio graduating in May 1901. He married Lillian Dixon in 1880 and had three children. The family lived in West Virginia after Dupuy finished medical school. He died on October 16, 1941 in Beckley, West Virginia of a coronary thrombosis. An interesting notebook for a class at an Ohio medical school in the late 1800s.