Introductory Lecture, delivered by H. Willis Baxley, M.D. ... University of Maryland. November 2, 1837.


Lecture on medical anatomy and its history—from Vesalius to William Harvey to Robert Carswell—by H. Willis Baxley, professor of anatomy and physiology at the University of Maryland. Includes Baxley’s memoir of the late anatomist Dr. John D. Godman (1794–1830), former student at the university and chair of anatomy at Rutgers Medical College.

Baltimore-native “Henry Willis Baxley [(1803-1876)], a founder of the first dental college in the world. Educated at St. Mary’s College; afterwards attending medical lectures in the University of Maryland and receiving his M.D. from that institution in 1824. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at the University of Maryland in 1834. In 1837 he became professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Maryland. In 1840 he held the same chair in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, then founded. From 1842 to 1847 he was professor of surgery in the Washington University of Baltimore; from 1849 to 1850 he was physician to the Baltimore Almshouse; in the latter year he moved to Cincinnati, having accepted the chair of anatomy in the medical College of Ohio; in 1852 he was transferred to the chair of surgery in the same institution; in 1865 he was government inspector of hospitals.” (quoted and paraphrased from Kelly & Burrage)


Description: Introductory Lecture, delivered by H. Willis Baxley, M.D. ... University of Maryland. November 2, 1837.

Baltimore: John D. Toy, Printer, 1839. 29, [1(blank)]pp. 8vo. Pamphlet; removed; without wrappers.; scattered foxing; else Very Good.

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