Lily G. H. Pridgeon surgical casebook

Item

Identifier: 10b 18

Scope and Contents

One volume ([7], 130 leaves) of surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Cases are dated 1 Oct. 1897 to 15 Apr. 1898. Preliminary leaves include general rules for operations and subject indexes of diagnoses and operations.

Dates

1897 - 1898

Creator

Pridgeon, Lily G. H. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Lily G.H. Pridgeon received her M.D. from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1898. She set up private practice in Canonsburg, Pa., but later moved it to Gibsonia, Pa. in 1916. She was a member of the American Medical Association, and was last listed in its directory in 1931. No other information about Dr. Pridgeon could be located.

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.