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Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/348
Overview
The Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers document portions of McCarthy’s medical career, particularly his writings and addresses on psychiatry and medical jurisprudence. As a prominent neurologist and medical jurisprudence expert, McCarthy treated wounded soldiers in the First World War, taught for thirty-five years at the University of Pennsylvania, and founded several research and benevolent medical foundations. The collection contains three series; “Writings and Addresses,” “Subject Files,” and...
Dates:
1902, 1921-1933, undated
David Lewis autograph letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/045
Scope and Contents
Letters describe David W. Lewis’s life and experiences as a medical student at Jefferson Medical College,
1845-1846, and his first private practice in Ebensburg, Pa., in 1846. Most of the content dwells on the difficulties
of Lewis’ separation from his fiancee, Maria; there is also a great deal of religious speculation. One letter, 11
Dec. 1845, mentions illness among the students, and another, [ca. 7 Jan. 1846], describes an outbreak of
smallpox in Philadelphia and a debate over vaccination as...
Dates:
1845 - 1846
David Ramsay letter to Jedidiah Morse
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/086
Scope and Contents
Letter, 14 Dec. 1813, concerns printing and distribution of Ramsay’s Memoirs of the life of Martha Laurens
Ramsay (1811) and projected first volume of his Universal history Americanized (1819). Typescript
transcript of letter by Samuel X Radbill, [ca. 1987], is included.
Published in Brunhouse, Robert L., "David Ramsay, 1749-1815: Selections from His Writings," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. vol. 55, pt. 4 (1965), pp. 177-178.
Published in Brunhouse, Robert L., "David Ramsay, 1749-1815: Selections from His Writings," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N.S. vol. 55, pt. 4 (1965), pp. 177-178.
Dates:
1813-12-14
David Wright diary
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/321
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a diary, 1835-1854 (Bulk 1839-1852), kept by British naval surgeon David Wright, b.1790. The diary contains periodic, sometime daily, entries describing the weather and events of the day. The bulk of the diary regards the personal, especially legal and financial, affairs of David Wright, but some entries relate to medical and naval activity. David Wright kept the diary while in London. Some entries may have been made by his wife. During at least part of the time the...
Dates:
1835 - 1854; Majority of material found within 1839 - 1852
David Y. Cooper collection of notes, articles, and graphs (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1999-003
Scope and Contents note
This collection is is comprised of notes, research articles and graphs used in the original research of Cytochrome p-450 at the University of Pennsylvania. It also includes reprints and photostats of articles by Otto Warburg, Julius Axelrod, David Y. Cooper, and others. There are handwritten notes, possibly by Cooper; a laboratory notebook (labeled vol. 6) with experiment data; photographs of the apparatus; and charts of data (some oversize). Additionally, there is a Pennsylvania vanity license...
Dates:
1927-1983
Deed of Trust of the Trustees of the Nathan Lewis Hatfield Prize and Lectureship
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/005-02
Scope and Contents
Deed of trust, 1914 Jan. 3, between the Trustees of the Nathan Lewis Hatfield Prize and Lectureship of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and executors of the Hatfield estate, amending the 1898 original document. The amendment allows the trust to be used to fund a lectureship rather than a prize for original research in medicine.
Dates:
1914-01-03
Deeds of Gift of the Office of the Treasurer
Collection
Identifier: CPP 5/001-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains notarized deeds of gift which were
filed and preserved by the treasurer, 1924-1953, for items
presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia for
the Mutter Museum or College Collections, Deeds for items
falling under the provisions of the Mutter Trust specify this
condition. Occasional inforaation on provenance and some
related letters are included.
Dates:
1924 - 1953
Deeds of trust of the Trustees of the Building Fund
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/019-02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the first deed of trust, 2 February
1850, between the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and
the Trustees of the Building Fund; the continuation of the
deed of the trust, 9 February 1859; and a report, 1 February
1861, of the trustees concerning the purchase of a lot
adjoining the College premises at 13th and Locust streets.
Dates:
1850 - 1861
Dinshah P. Ghadiali papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/262
Scope and Contents
This collection of spectro chrome metry materials, spanning 1936
to 1941, consists of photographs, a scrapbook of correspondence
between the Spectro Chrome Institute and an individual who had
purchased a spectro chrome, and miscellaneous items. Some of
these items were used as evidence in the November 1946 trial
which resulted in Ghadiali's indictment on charges of "false
and misleading" claims in his literature.Series 1 contains three photographs of the spectro chrome, a...
Dates:
1936 - 1941
Directory of physicians in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/313
Scope and Contents
Listing of name, residence, medical school and year of graduation, thesis subject, and place of nativity, for physicians practicing in Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, in Pennsylvania, 1848-1849.
Dates:
1848 - 1849
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- Correspondence 351
- Minutes 109
- Lecture notes 106
- Reports 89
- Financial records 79
- Photographs 68
- Clippings 45
- Speeches (documents) 38
- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 36
- Medicine -- Practices 36
- Ledgers (account books) 34
- Committees 33
- Essays 33
- Lectures 33
- Annual reports 32
- Typescripts 31
- Materia Medica 30
- Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
- Patient records 28
- Daybooks 27
- Manuscripts (documents) 26
- Obstetrics 24
- Anatomy 23
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- Recipes 23
- Surgery 23
- Diaries 21
- Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
- Publications (documents) 19
- Certificates 18
- Pathology 17
- Physiology 17
- Research notes 17
- Admission tickets 16
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
- Membership records 16
- Bylaws (administrative records) 15
- Genealogies (histories) 15
- Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 15
- Chemistry 14
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- University of Pennsylvania 40
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia 38
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
- Rush, Benjamin 22
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
- Chapman, Nathaniel 16
- Jefferson Medical College 16
- Philadelphia General Hospital 15
- Fisher, Charles Perry 13
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
- Mütter Museum 10
- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
- Coxe, John Redman 9
- Physick, Philip Syng 9
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Hodge, H. Lenox (Hugh Lenox) 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Roberts, John Bingham 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 7
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Dorsey, John Syng 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Parrish, Joseph 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Edinburgh 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
- Blockley Almshouse 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
- Hinsdale, Guy 4
- Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Wistar, Caspar 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
- Pancoast, Joseph 3
- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
- Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases 3
- Sizer, Nelson 3
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- United States Naval Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Wallace, Ellerslie 3
- Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark) 3 ∧ less
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