Kathrina Freudenberger surgical casebook

Item

Identifier: 10b 15

Scope and Contents

One volume ([13], 172 leaves) of 114 surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Preliminary leaves include table of contents, summary of operations, and classification of new cases seen in 1898-1899 [i.e. 1897-1898].

Dates

1897 - 1898

Creator

Freudenberger, Kathrina (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Kathrina Freundenberger was born in Tamaqua, Pa. in 1860. She received her M.D. from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1899. She returned to Tamaqua, where she set up private practice. She was a Fellow of the American Medical Association. On 9 March 1922, Freundenberger died in Tamaqua of chronic nephritis.

John Bingham Roberts (1852-1924), Philadelphia surgeon, received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1874. He then trained at Pennsylvania Hospital from 1875 to 1877. He was a leading figure in the foundation of the Philadelphia Polyclinic and School for Graduates in Medicine and was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery there until the Polyclinic merged with the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in 1918. He held many local appointments as Surgeon and lectured on surgery at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Roberts was very active in professional societies. He helped organize the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. He served as Vice-President of the American Surgical Association (1889 and 1895) and was President in 1921. He assembled a collection of photographs and autograph letters of every Fellow of the ASA. Roberts was elected to Fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1878.