Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 348 Collections and/or Records:
Minutes of the Training School for Nurses at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 4/001-02
Overview
The Training School for Nurses at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital opened on 22 Oct. 1890. It was under the direction of a principal and an Executive Committee. This Executive Committee may have developed, in 1915, into the Training School Committee, which had oversight of the education, work, discipline, and living conditions of Hahnemann’s student nurses.Minute book of the Training School Committee, 1915 May 20-1921 Sept. 21. Related correspondence included. Minutes...
Dates:
1915-1921
Mona Spiegel-Adolf papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/252
Scope and Contents
Personal papers and research files of biochemist Mona Spiegel-Adolf, including correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, and laboratory notes. Series 1 contains biographical material and personal journal. Series 2 contains research files, including data, notes, memoranda, tables, and drafts of reports concerning electrophoresis, melanin, steroids, biochemical aspects of Tay-Sachs disease, and vitamins. Includes typescript of Kolloidforschung in der immunbiologie, circa 1930.Organized...
Dates:
1930 - 1966
Nathaniel Chapman letter to Dr. Welford
Collection
Identifier: MSS 403
Scope and Contents
This is a letter written by Nathaniel Chapman, in Philadelphia, Pa., to a Dr. Welford, and is dated 19 July 1839. The letter discusses the case of Mr. Alexander, who suffered from a tumor in his bowel, and offers suggestions for treatment. The collection includes a typed transcription of the letter.
Dates:
1839
Nicholas Chervin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/141
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifty-seven responses from fifty-six Philadelphia physicians to Chervin's 1821 survey concerning each physician's experiences with and beliefs regarding the contagious nature of yellow fever.
Dates:
1821 - 1832
Otto Rosenthal papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/022
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Otto Rosenthal's papers contains professional
and personal correspondence with colleagues and co workers during
his years at the Harrison Department of Surgical Research and
his work with alkaline phosphatase and cytochrome P 450. Many
of the major correspondents, including Jonathan E. Rhoads, William
S. Blakemore, Shakunthala Narasimhulu, David Y. Cooper, and
Ronald W. Estabrook, were members of the Harrison Department.
Although mention of Rosenthal's research...
Dates:
1951 - 1972
Papers concerning The Pharmacopoeia of the United States of America from the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/004
Overview
The office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia was created during the organization of the
College in 1787. The Secretary is the appointed officer of
record. His original duties were to record the minutes and
transactions of the College and preserve its documents and
correspondence.The collection contains letters, circulars, and reports,
1818-1821, probably assembled by Joseph Parrish, Secretary
of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, documenting
the...
Dates:
1818 - 1843
Papers concerning the publications of the transactions of the College from the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/005-01
Overview
The office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia was created during the organization of the College in 1787. The Secretary is the appointed officer of record. His original duties were to record the minutes and transactions of the College and preserve its documents and correspondence.These reports, letters, and proposals concerning the
publication of the College's transactions, spanning 1841 to
1879, are part of the records of the Office of the Secretary
of...
Dates:
1841 - 1879; Majority of material found within 1851 - 1858
Paul E. Bechet papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 381
Overview
Paul Esnard Bechet was born July 28, 1881 and died January 3, 1962. In 1903, he received his medical degree from Tulane University. Early in his career, Bechet assisted during the yellow fever epidemic of 1905 in New Orleans. From 1909 to 1934, Bechet worked at the New York Skin and Cancer Hospital as a clinical assistant, assistant physician, and physician. In his later life, he owned a private medical practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey.The Paul E. Bechet papers consist of the...
Dates:
1899 - 1947
Peirce family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/308
Scope and Contents
The collection contains medical education and personal papers,
1824-1895, of three physicians of the Peirce family of Maine.
Series 1 includes volumes of notes, 1824-1825, taken by James
H. Peirce on Nathan Smith's lectures on surgery and the theory
and practice of physic at the Medical School of Maine. One
volume of notes on the anatomy and physiology lectures of John
D. Wells is included. The series also includes Peirce's rough
notes for an essay, probably his medical...
Dates:
1824 - 1895
Philip Leidy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/171
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Philip Leidy material, 1880-1887, contains several letters, a formal presentation on nervous cases, some informal remarks, and report on the second recorded autopsy of Chinese man performed in United States.
The letter to G. L. Fisher describes delivery of diploteratologic fetus, and the letter to Philip C. Garrett presents Leidy’s views on treatment of insane patients.
The letter to G. L. Fisher describes delivery of diploteratologic fetus, and the letter to Philip C. Garrett presents Leidy’s views on treatment of insane patients.
Dates:
1880 - 1887
