Travel literature

Scope and Contents The Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Tercentenary Papers, spanning 1967 to 1981, are part of the records of the Office of the President of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The bulk of the papers date from 1980 to 1981, when Lewis W. Bluemle was President of the College of Physicians. The papers document Bluemle's involvement in the Tercentenary Congress of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.Series 1 contains correspondence pertaining to the preparations...

Scope and Contents note The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...

Scope and Contents This small collection contains the holograph diary of the physician from his 1910-1911 voyage to Arabia, India, and Africa, as well as the itinerary from his 1929 voyage to Sweden and Poland, and a few poems.The 1910-1911 diary contains the physician's account of his experiences and sights on his journey from Philadelphia, across the Atlantic and Mediterranean to Egypt, around Arabia and through the Persian Gulf to India, around the coast of Africa, and back across the...