Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1682

CASPAR MORRIS (1805-1884) Lectures on scarlet fever. Lindsay & Blakiston 1851 [6] 104 pp. 23.4 cm.

Morris, a native Philadelphian, studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated in 1826. In 1827 he made a voyage to India as surgeon on the Pacific and, upon his return the following year, he was appointed as one of the physicians to the Philadelphia Dispensary. He helped establish the House of Refuge, the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, and the Philadelphia Medical Institute where he lectured on the practice of medicine. The present monograph on scarlet fever consists of a series of nine lectures that Morris originally presented to his students at the Philadelphia Medical Institute and which were also serialized in the Medical examiner. He noted that the lectures were here revised for publication and represent his experiences in the practice of medicine over a period of twenty-five years.