Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
August 31, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
New-York Gazette, 31 Aug 1795
Additional Source Text:
Notes:
Samuel Cooper (1772-1798) began his medical studies in Maryland in 1791, and in 1793 became apprenticed to Samuel Coates, Samuel Clark, and Bartholomew Wistar, managers of the Pennsylvania Hospital. He is listed in the 1794 city directory as an apothecary at the hospital. Cooper received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in May 1797 and died in the yellow fever epidemic of 1798 / https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-763coa?id=navbarbr…
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Current Scientific Name
