Name/Title
ticketEntry/Object ID
1997.015.019Description
Ticket. Admission to Pennsylvania College - Medical Department, "Lectures on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women & Children" by John Wiltbank, M.D., for Mr. J. J. Weaver, white card 3.75" x 4.75", with black printing, validated in black ink, Philadelphia, 1844.Context
There was no single tuition for medical school in the early 1800s. Students paid each professor by buying lecture tickets. These tickets proved they had attended class and were required to graduate.
This ticket was used by Dr. Jacob J. Weaver. A generation later, his son, Dr. J.J. Weaver, Jr. would also attend medical school. By the 1860s, he was attending a course on "Obstetrics" instead of the more outdated term midwifery.Acquisition
Accession
1997.015Source or Donor
Werling, Margaret WhittleseyAcquisition Method
GiftExhibition
Main Street at Work: Merchants and Medicine in Carroll CountyGeneral Notes
Note
Papers of Jacob J. Weaver, Sr. while attending the Pennsylvania College Medical Department, in Gettysburg; he graduated in 1846.