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Magnetic Medical Institute correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 384
Overview
Magnetic medicine was a popular (and likely ineffective) medical treatment during the 19th century. It was particularly prominent in the Midwestern United States after the American Civil War. This phenomenon has been attributed to an unsettled frontier atmosphere, a lack of trained physicians, and a tradition of self-treatment. Alternative treatments (or what might be considered quackery) flourished in this region of the United States. The Magnetic Medical Institute was located...
Dates:
1900
Manuscript archives of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/001-01
Overview
The Office of the Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia created during organization in 1787. Secretary is the appointed officer of record whose original duties included maintenance of College minutes and transactions and preservation of its documents and correspondence.This collection holds correspondence, financial papers, reports, medical cases, and fellowship applications and resignations, 1787-1847, kept by the Secretaries of the College of Physicians of...
Dates:
1787 - 1847
Marcus A. Franklin lecture and matriculation tickets
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/129
Scope and Contents
This small collection documents Marcus A. Franklin's medical education
at Jefferson Medical College, 1868-1870. The collection contains
Franklin's matriculation card, admission cards to lectures at
Jefferson and the medical library of Pennsylvania Hospital,
and an examination schedule. Faculty members whose lectures
Franklin attended are: John Barclay Biddle, J. Solis Cohen,
S. Henry Dickson, Samuel D. Gross, R. J. Levis, J. Aitken Meigs,
Joseph Pancoast, William H. Pancoast, B. Howard...
Dates:
1868 - 1870
Margaret Castex Sturgis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/020
Scope and Contents
This small collection of papers of Margaret Castex Sturgis touches
on many aspects of her medical career and interests during her
time in the Philadelphia area. The collection is particularly
strong in the areas of gynecology and cervical cancer research.The collection is divided into six small series. Series 1 concerns
Sturgis' teaching career while at Woman's Medical College.
The bulk of this series is the text of a complete course of
twelve lectures on gynecology from...
Dates:
1927 - 1946
Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/074
Scope and Contents
This small collection of materials, 1893-1915, preserved by Mary
and Ruth Bradley, documents the life of Edward Livingston Trudeau,
physician and tuberculosis researcher, as well as the treatment
of tuberculosis patients at Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium
in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the 1890s.Series 1 contains two autographed letters, 1898 and circa 1902,
from Edward Livingston Trudeau to Mary Bradley. Series 2 is
an undated manuscript prescription by Trudeau for throat...
Dates:
1893 - 1915
Mary Cash letter to Mrs. G. T. Bedell
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/010
Scope and Contents
Replies to inquiry concerning Mary C. Cash’s experience with homeopathic treatment for pain in her side
and shoulder during the "prevailing epidemic". Her children also underwent treatment. Mrs. Cash
continued eight weeks under the treatment of Constantine Hering, who visited her several times, but did
not improve. She treated herself covertly with balsam of wild cherry for one week and her symptoms
abated. Hering’s treatment proved beneficial to the Cash children, however. Mrs. Cash did not...
Dates:
1845
Mary R. McCarl typescript essay on Thomas M. Boulware
Item
Identifier: MSS 390
Overview
Thomas M. Boulware was born in Hannibal, Missouri, in 1903, and graduated from Washington University Medical School in 1926. Boulware was well-known for his work with the poor and Black communities in Birmingham. He served on the maternal health committees of Jefferson County Medical Society and the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. In addition to helping establish the first maternity clinic for poor women at Hillman Hospital in 1935, Boulware ran the Maternity Clinic...
Dates:
27 April 1989
Matthew T. Moore papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1996-030
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of Matthew T. Moore. Bound volumes include: professional papers, such as reprints, articles, reports on grant projects, and poems; a volume of poetry; and a curriculum vitae. Other items include additional copies of articles and reprints; photographs; a curriculum vitae of Stella Moore (Dr. Moore's wife); and a small amount of correspondence, including letters to Professor J.O. Trelles, the director of Revista de Neuro-Psiquiatria, and Moore's 1985 letter to...
Dates:
1933-1996
Maud Richards collection on the Ashhurst, Eyre, and Leiper family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/073
Scope and Contents
This small collection of genealogical research, photographs, printed
material, and manuscript material, 1813-1964, assembled by Maud
Richards, documents the history of members of the Ashhurst,
Eyre, and Leiper families of Philadelphia.Series 1 contains a manuscript genealogy, compiled circa 1933,
with information on the Eyre, Connolly, Little, and Ashhurst
families. Many original manuscript items, chiefly receipts,
payment orders, and signature cuttings, have been inserted...
Dates:
1813 - 1964
Max B. Lurie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/115
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, personal papers, addresses,
and writings, 1926-1967, of Max B. Lurie, documenting his life,
professional career, and research into genetic resistance to
tuberculosis.Lurie's professional correspondence, 1928-1966, is preserved
in Series 1. Principal correspondents are Lurie's colleagues
or collaborators in tuberculosis research, many of them associated
with the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania,
including Samuel...
Dates:
1926 - 1957
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- Correspondence 348
- Minutes 109
- Reports 89
- Lecture notes 80
- Financial records 79
- Photographs 68
- Clippings 45
- Speeches (documents) 38
- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 36
- Ledgers (account books) 34
- Committees 33
- Essays 33
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- Annual reports 32
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- Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
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- Manuscripts (documents) 26
- Materia Medica 26
- Medicine -- Practices 26
- Patient records 25
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- Recipes 23
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- Diaries 21
- Obstetrics 21
- Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
- Publications (documents) 19
- Certificates 18
- 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
- Library catalogs 14
- Anatomy 13
- Chemistry 13
- Fellows 13
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- Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Nineteenth century 6
- Physicians -- World War, 1914 - 1918 6
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- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 39
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia 38
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
- University of Pennsylvania 18
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
- Jefferson Medical College 15
- Philadelphia General Hospital 15
- Rush, Benjamin 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
- Chapman, Nathaniel 9
- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Physick, Philip Syng 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 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
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 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
- Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
- Parrish, Joseph 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
- 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
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Hinsdale, Guy 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
- Wistar, Caspar 3
- Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark) 3
- Abbe, Robert 2
- American Association for the History of Medicine 2
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- American Medical Society 2
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