A Syllabus of the Lectures Delivered at the Massachusetts Medical College to the Medical Students of Harvard University

[Boston, 1816]. 8vo. 108 pp., with extensive interleaving as issued. Publisher's green roan-backed boards, boards pierced with remnant of ties; covers worn, occasional light staining, some wear to fore-edge from tie Interleaved with lecture notes by Harvard medical student Frederick Benjamin Page, covering 44 lectures in a dense but legible hand. The printed material presents the syllabus for an introductory course on medicine by James Jackson, who notes in his introduction will "be unintelligible to any, except those actually attending the lectures to which it refers. Page (1798-1857), himself a physician, was the son of Dr. Benjamin Page of Hallowell, Maine, a pioneer in the use of the smallpox vaccine in America.PROVENANCE: Frederick B. Page (ownership inscription, Boston Nov. 22, 1819 on the ffep and signed on front cover in block letters "F.B. Page")