Manual of Physical Diagnosis - 1891 - James Tyson MD, University of Pennsylvania

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Manual of Physical Diagnosis for the Use of Students and Physicians
James Tyson 1891
By James Tyson, M.D.
Published by P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1891.
5 x 7 ¼ hardcover, 136 pages.
Very good condition 1891 original,
NOT a print on demand reproduction
. Pages are very slightly yellowed and foxed. Very little dog-earing, including corners of front and back boards being still crisp. The front flyleaf is completely detached at the inside spine. Otherwise the binding is intact, not quite tight, but far from tired.
James Tyson (1841 – 1919) was a descendent of Cornelius Teissen, one of the first settlers of the Germantown, just outside Philadelphia. He graduated from the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1863.
“Tyson served his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1863 and 1864. Following which, he served in the Union Army as an acting medical cadet and an acting assistant surgeon. In 1868, Tyson reunited with his alma mater when he was named lecturer in miscroscopy at the Medical School of the University of Pennsylvania. He remained as a lecturer of one subject or another until 1876 when he was named professor of anatomy and morbid anatomy, a position he held until becoming the dean of the Medical Faculty of Penn’s Medical School in 1888. During his Penn career, Tyson also served as professor of the practice of medicine, professor of clinical medicine, as secretary of the Faculty of Medicine, and on the board of managers of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, before being named professor emeritus of medicine in 1910. Tyson was a member of numerous academic societies including the American Medical Association and the American Philosophical Society. He served as the president of the Association of American Physicians (which he founded in 1886), the College of Physicians, the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and the Pennsylvania State Medical Society; and he was an original member of the Obstetrical Society of Philadelphia.
Tyson was perhaps most well known in the medical community for his pioneering use of the microscope and his prolific writing ability. Aside from writing numerous medical books, some of which went through many many editions, Tyson also wrote articles for medical journals and helped to edit the Philadelphia Medical Times.”