Collection: Joseph A. Wolf lecture and matriculation tickets

Dates

1844 - 1847

Creator

Wolf, Joseph A. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Joseph A. Wolf, of Pennsylvania, attended courses in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College during the 1844-1845 and 1847-1848 academic sessions. He received his M.D. in 1848. His thesis was on typhus fever. Nothing further is known of Wolf, though a Joseph A. Wolfe was surgeon to the 29th Pennsylvania Infantry from 1861-1865.

Extent

1 folder (16 items)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Physical Location

Small collections

Custodial History

The Joseph A. Wolf Collection was donated to the Historical Collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia by Francis James Dallett of the University of Pennsylvania Archives in 1973.

The collection was processed and catalogued in 1991.

Related Materials

This small collection of lecture admission cards and related material documents the education of Joseph A. Wolf in the Medical Department of Pennsylvania College in 1844 and 1847.

Lectures which Wolf attended were given by: Washington L. Atlee on chemistry; William Darrach on the principles and practice of medicine; David Gilbert on surgery; William R. Grant on anatomy and physiology; Henry S. Patterson on materia medica and pharmacy; and John Wiltbank on midwifery and the diseases of women and children.