Wister, Owen J., 20 February 1895

File — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: This extensive collection of the correspondence of John Ashhurst, Jr., documents his professional interests, editorial work, and contact with colleagues in the surgical field through the courseof his career, 1868-1900. Most items concern responses to Ashhurst's request for articles for the International encyclopaedia of surgery, replies to invitations, and case descriptions or referrals. The collection also contains a few items, 1863-1864, from Ashhurst's service during the Civil War, as well as an 1835 autograph letter of Philip Syng Physick and three medical receipts, 1848, 1852, and 1880, collected by Philadelphia merchant and banker John Ashhurst (1809-1892).

Major correspondents in the collection are: William Adams, D.Hayes Agnew, Harrison Allen, Walter F. Atlee, J. S. Billings,Albert H. Buck, Henry T. Butlin, Phineas S. Conner, Anthony H.Corley, Edward Cowles, L. A. Duhring, G. E. Fenwick, SimonFlexner, William Goodell, J. W. S. Gouley, S. W. Gross, ReginaldHarrison, James H. Hutchinson, W. H. Kingston, Richard J. Levis,Samuel Lewis, William MacCormac, Henry Morris, C. B. Nancrede,William F. Norris, George A. Otis, Frederick A. Packard, William Pepper, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, Lewis A. Sayre, Albert H. Smith,F. R. Sturgis, Frederick Treves, James Tyson, William H. VanBuren, J. Collins Warren, J. William White, James C. White, and John A. Wyeth. There are also folders of letters from the Collegeof Physicians of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania.

Items of note include: letters from W. F. Atlee, 1878, concerning a misconduct charge leveled against William Goodell; J. S. Billings' plans for a medical subject catalogue, 1874-1876; HoraceY. Evans on a case of occlusion of the urethra, 26 February 1876; letters, 1873, from J. W. S. Gouley and William H. Van Buren concerning a controversy over the invention of tunnelled urethral instruments; S. W. Gross' report, 9 February 1876, on a case ofremoval of the breast; J. H. Hutchinson on a misdiagnosis, 18 March 1877; Ezra Michener on bone fractures, 24 November 1881; two letters, 1873, from Henry M'Quiston concerning "Golden Blossom No.2", a supposed cure for syphilis; and letters from the University of Pennsylvania notifying Ashhurst of his election as Professor ofClinical Surgery, 6 June 1877, and John Rhea Barton Professor of Surgery, 8 January 1889.