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A.C. Wooden collection of stamps (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2287
Scope and Contents note
The A. C. Wooden stamp collection on the history of medicine includes stamps and first day of issue envelopes that have been mounted and framed (6 framed items, approx. 700 stamps). Topics include doctors; nurses; disease awareness; medical institutions; and miscellaneous science and technology subjects from all corners of the globe, dated 1939 to 1979. The collection is accompanied by a placard that says "History of Medicine in Stamps by A. C. Wooden".
Address manuscript (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1996-005
Scope and Contents note
This is an address by a physician, presumably to a group of his colleagues. The address is untitled and undated. It discusses the history of medicine and current medical theory and practice. Specific topics mentioned include Thompsonism ("heat is life"), hydrotherapy, and homeopathy.
Albert C. Gorgas essay and examination questions
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/234
Scope and Contents
Holograph essay, 1856 Mar. 28, describing causes, symptoms, and treatment of neuralgia and tic doloureux [facial neuralgia], and twelve examination questions with responses, [1856 Mar. 31], by Albert C. Gorgas. Forms part of Gorgas’ examination for entrance into Medical Corps of the U.S. Navy. Essay written at U.S. Naval Home in Philadelphia and presented to the Board of Naval Surgeons of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Albert Morris Eaton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/005
Scope and Contents
The Eaton Papers consist of correspondence, handwritten notes,
reports, and newspaper and periodical articles concerning Eaton's
life, career, and professional concerns. The bulk of the collection
is comprised of records from Eaton's tenure as Chairman of the Philadelphia County Medical Society(PCMS) Committee on Archives. These records include reports
of the committee; correspondence files with physicians and their
descendants concerning biographical information; Eaton's
biographical...
Albert S. Ashmead papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/029
Overview
The Albert S. Ashmead papers (1875-1910) is a fine collection
documenting the professional experiences of a well-known American
leprologist. The focus of the collection is Ashmead's correspondence
with other leprologist and international figures concerning
the 1897 Berlin lepra conference. The collection also contains
manuscripts of Ashmead's articles, the text for an unpublished
anthology on Japanese medicine, and research notes and translations
of articles concerning leprosy and...
Alexander Jackson notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/196
Scope and Contents
Alexander Jackson’s notes, 26 Jan. through 27 Feb. 1824, from lectures in Medical Dept. of the University of Pennsylvania. Includes occasional diagrams and subject index. Lecturers include: Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine, John Redman Coxe on materia medica, William Gibson on surgery, and William P. Dewees and Thomas C. James on midwifery. Includes occasional notes on Robert Hare on chemistry and Philip Syng Physick on anatomy.
Alexander Knight daybooks (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1998-006
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of two volumes of Knight's lists of patients attended, 1813-1815 and 1820-1821. The lists include the date, name, age, residence, cost, diagnosis, and outcome. The first volume also includes a summary table of patients seen by month for the years 1813 through 1817.
Alexander Rush papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/243
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Alexander Rush's papers, 1931-1984, with
some earlier material, documents his personal life, professional
career, and interest in his ancestor, Benjamin Rush, and includes
lectures and addresses, writings, awards, certificates, diplomas,
and photographs.Series 1 contains letters, a passport, curricula vitae, bibliographies,
and printed material concerning Rush's life and career, 1922-1984.
Material, 1812-1981, concerning Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)
is in...
Alfred M. Cooper daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/343
Alfred R. Shands, Jr. papers on William E. Horner
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/090
Scope and Contents
This small collection of correspondence and related materials,
1821-1975, assembled by Alfred Rives Shands, Jr., documents
his research on William E. Horner. The collection is divided into four series. Series 1 contains
Shands' correspondence, 1948-1975, concerning the loan and ultimate
disposition of a collection of Horner papers and relics at the
University of Pennsylvania and Shands' attempt to publish Horner's
1821 European diary. Series 2 contains two printed items...
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- University of Pennsylvania 43
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- Rush, Benjamin 18
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 17
- Chapman, Nathaniel 16
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 16
- Jefferson Medical College 15
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 14
- Philadelphia General Hospital 14
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 9
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 9
- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 9
- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Physick, Philip Syng 8
- Hodge, H. Lenox (Hugh Lenox) 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Mütter Museum 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Roberts, John Bingham 7
- Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Osler, William, Sir 6
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 6
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 6
- Radbill, Samuel X. 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Dorsey, John Syng 5
- Dunglison, Robley 5
- Fisher, Charles Perry 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Parrish, Joseph 5
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Edinburgh 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Blockley Almshouse 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 4
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 4
- Hinsdale, Guy 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 4
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Wistar, Caspar 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 3
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 3
- Chapple, Charles C. 3
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
- Pancoast, Joseph 3
- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
- Sizer, Nelson 3
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
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- Tyson, James 3
- United States Naval Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark) 3
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- American Association for the History of Medicine 2
- American Gynecological Society 2
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- American Surgical Association 2
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