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COLLECTION Identifier: UAI 15.983

Records of the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic kept by James Jackson

Correspondence, 1814-1827 and undated Digital

Scope and Contents The bulk of the outgoing correspondence in this series documents Jackson's administration of the Harvard Medical School as Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic. Some of the topics addressed in this series to Harvard President John T. Kirkland include the travel inconveniences that Jackson and other medical professors faced when traveling between ...

Reports, 1822-1827 Digital

Scope and Contents The reports in this series were written to the President of Harvard College, the Corporation, and the Board of Overseers and document the activities of James Jackson and the Harvard Medical Department from 1822 to 1827. The bulk of the information in these reports consists of statistics about Jackson's classes and the Medical Department such as the number of students attending medical lectures, the number of lectures delivered or...

Lists of candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, 1816-1826 Digital

Scope and Contents

The candidate lists in this series record the names of those students receiving medical degrees, the fees paid by those students for their degrees and diplomas, and the students' previously conferred undergraduate academic degrees.

Receipts for medical degrees and diplomas, 1816-1824 Digital

Scope and Contents

The receipts in this series record the amounts that students paid for their medical degrees and diplomas from Harvard.

Extracts from the Harvard Corporation meeting minutes from 1782 to 1816 Digital

Scope and Contents This document consists of extracts from the meeting minutes of the Harvard Corporation from 1782 to 1816 which appear to address the residency requirements and annual salaries of medical professors. The extracts refer to a residential exemption given to the Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic (1782); a vote of the Corporation appointing an adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Chemistry, and Materia Medica and requiring the professor to reside in the City of Cambridge (October 22, 1808);...