Parke, Thomas
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1749 - 1835
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
College of Physicians Early Records
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/001-02
Overview
The College of Physicians Early Records document some of the College of Physicians' earliest activities, including attempts by Fellows to diagnose and treat the 1793 yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia. The collection, which was discovered by chance in 2001 by College foreman Leroy Green, contains letters, manuscripts, and committee reports. Founded in 1787, the College assembled prominent Philadelphia physicians "to advance the science of medicine and to thereby lessen human misery." The...
Dates:
1788-1847; 1889; 2001
Manuscript archives of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/001-01
Overview
The Office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia created during organization in 1787. Secretary is the appointed officer of record whose original duties included maintenance of College minutes and transactions and preservation of its documents and correspondence.This collection holds correspondence, financial papers, reports, medical cases, and fellowship applications and resignations, 1787-1847, kept by the Secretaries of the College of Physicians of...
Dates:
1787 - 1847
Thomas Parke notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents
Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of
chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities;
and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and
chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include
Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.
Dates:
1767 - 1769
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