Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Personal impressions of the surgery of the Great War, with a description of an irrigation system for perforating infected wounds, Philadelphia Academy of Surgery, 5784
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
This small collection of Edmund B. Piper Papers consists of two
items of correspondence received, 1918 and 1924; and typescripts of five speeches, 1915-1931. The collection documents Piper's experiences in World War I and his work with the treatment of septicemia.In Series 1, the letter, dated 28 June 1918, by Robert G. LeConte to Piper describes an offensive attack on a French mobile hospital and conditions at Hospital No.1 at Neuilly. The letter from Irene F. Lamb of Women's...
Dates:
5784
