Joseph Frank Papers

Collection

Identifier: MS C 287

Collection Summary

Contains letters, written in French, on the introduction of vaccination, written from Vienna and Vilna, to Dr. Alexander Marcet, London (1802-1805).

Dates

Creation: 1802-1805

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (1 box)

Creator

Frank, Joseph (Person)

Physical Location

Materials stored onsite.

Language of Materials

Collection materials primarily in English, French

Restrictions

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Biographical Note

German-born physician Joseph Frank, 1771-1842, was professor of pathology for University at Vilnius, Lithuania. He was a founder of the Vilnius Medical Society (1805) the first medical society in the Russian empire. Frank's lessons, epitomized in his Praexos medicae praecepta universa, emphasized observational and empirical medicine.

Dr. Frank's works include Lettera ad un amico (1796), Erlauterungen der Brownischen Arzneilehre (1797), Heilart in der klinischen Lehranstalt zu Pavia (1797), Ratio instituti clinici Ticinensis (1797, 1799), Handbuch der Toxicologie; oder, Der Lehre von Giften und Gegengiften (1800, 1803), Erlauterungen der Erregungstheorie (1803), Reise nach Paris, London, und einem grossen Theile des ubrigen Englands und Schottlands in Beziehung auf Spitaler, Versorgungshauser, ubrige Armen-Institute, medizinische Lehranstalten, und Gefangnisse (1804-05), Handbuch der Toxicologie; oder, Der Lehre von Giften und Gegengiften (1800, 1803), Delectus opusculorum ad praxin medicam spectantium antenac apud gentes exteras editorum quae in medicorum Italiae commodum collegit (1828), and Grundsatze der gesammten praktischen Heilkunde; ein Handbuch fur Lehrer und fur Lernende (1829-43).