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Sources consulted for the biography of:Robley Dunglison (1798–1869)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates on gravestone, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Penn.
- Robley Dunglison Papers, 1830–1869, Historical Medical Library, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Penn.
- Robley Dunglison Collection, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Penn.
- Robley Dunglison correspondence in various collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
- John M. Dorsey, ed., The Jefferson-Dunglison Letters (1960).
- Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D.… with Sketches of His Contemporaries, ed. Samuel W. Gross and A. Haller Gross (1887), 2:329–335.
- Samuel X. Radbill, ed., "The Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D.," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., 53 (1963):1–212, with frontispiece portrait, list of honors and positions on 194–196, and bibliography of Dunglison's works on 196–199.
Secondary Sources
- Mary Jeanne A. Jones and Chalmers L. Gemmill "The Notebook of Robley Dunglison, Student of Clinical Medicine in Edinburgh, 1815–1816," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 22 (1967):261–273.
- Percy G. Hamlin, "Aesculapius in Charlottesville: Robley Dunglison, M.D.," Virginia Cavalcade 22 (summer 1972):14–21.
Obituaries and Memorials
- Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1869; April 6, 1869 (with account of funeral)
- Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, April 5, 1869
- American Literary Gazette and Publishers’ Circular 12 (April 15, 1869):287–288
- Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education 3 (1869):676–678
- Medical and Surgical Reporter 20 (April 17, 1869): 310, and (April 24, 1869):322–323
- Franklin Peale, Memorial of the Late Robley Dunglison, M.D., One of the Vice-Presidents of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (1869).
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