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Title: Human Skin Pigmentation as an Example of Adaptive Evolution
Identifier(s): video:1042; 2010_04_005
Description: Dr. Jablonski discusses unseen human evolution. How did skin color evolve and why was this adapation necessary?
Subject: History of Science; Human evolution; Skin, Physiology; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2010-04-22

Title: Marvels of Bacterial Behavior
Identifier(s): video:501; 2005_04_013
Description: An engaging lecture on the history of bacteria, how they move, and how they grow.
Subject: History of Science; Bacteria, Physiology; Bacteria, Movement; Microbiology; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2005-04-29

Title: How the Brain Represents our Movements and Our Intentions
Identifier(s): video:987; 2009_04_008
Description: Dr. Sirigu talks about the brain and how we move. How does the brain react to a hand transplant, for example.
Subject: History of Science; Motor Cortex, Physiology; Surgical transplantation; APS Meeting Videos
Date: 2009-04-24

Title: William F. Jenks Notes on the Lectures on Physiology and the Institute, Delivered by Francis Gurney Smith M.D., Penn 1864-1865; Medical notes - Lectures on Physiology
Identifier(s): text:332049
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--History--19th century; Medical education; Science and technology; Medical sciences; Physiology; Cell physiology; Reproduction; Jenks, William F. (William Furness), 1842-1881
Date: 1864-1865; 2020

Title: Lecture notes on anatomy, Volume 4
Identifier(s): text:330948
Description: These volumes contain notes from lectures taken and given by Caspar Wistar. Subjects include bones, teeth, amputation, and midwifery.; informally listed as Vol. 4 in finding aid.
Subject: Anatomy--Study and teaching; Medical education; Medicine; Medicine--Study and teaching; Obstetrics--Study and teaching; Amputation--Study and teaching; Medicine--19th century; Physiology; Health; Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818
Date: [1781-1809]; 2020

Title: Lecture notes on anatomy, Volume 1
Identifier(s): text:330585
Description: These volumes contain notes from lectures taken and given by Caspar Wistar. Subjects include bones, teeth, amputation, and midwifery.
Subject: Anatomy--Study and teaching; Medical education; Medicine; Medicine--Study and teaching; Obstetrics--Study and teaching; Amputation--Study and teaching; Medicine--19th century; Anatomy; Diseases; Surgery; Dissection; Human dissection; Nature; Death; Extremities (Anatomy); Ligaments; Heart--Anatomy; Physiology; Wistar, Caspar, 1761-1818
Date: [1781-1809]; 2020

Title: Notes of the Lectures of Samuel Jackson M.D. Philadelphia. 1840' 41.; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857. Medical lecture notes for course by Samuel Jackson
Identifier(s): text:333828
Subject: Science--United States--History--19th century; Medicine--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania; Medicine--Practice--Pennsylvania; Hospitals--Pennsylvania; Medicine; Medical sciences; Physiology; Chemistry; Biochemistry; Heat; Physiology; Fibrin; Gelatin; Connective tissue cells; Pathology; Inflammation; Death; Cancer; Rheumatism; Aneurisms; Cartilage; Bones--Diseases; Cysts; Heart; Pericardium; Peritoneum; Endocarditis; Skin; Central nervous system--Diseases; Skin absorption; Mucous membrane; Mucous membrane--diseases; Pancreas; Liver; Kidneys; Opium; Lungs; Respiration; Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857; Jackson, Samuel 1787-1872
Date: 1840-1841; 2020