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William L. Lincoln letter to Isaac Hays
Collection
Identifier: MSS 454
Overview
One letter in which Lincoln requessts Hays' opinion on "the enclosed printed matter" (not present) and the ethics of publishing it, possibly in a Minnesota State Medical Society publication.
Dates:
1869 December 30
William M. Coffin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/297
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters, claim forms, affidavits, memoranda,
and other documents, 1880-1911, concerning William M. Coffin's
military pension and medical disabilities from his service in
the Civil War. The papers describe Coffin's state of health
and war related disabilities as well as his experiences with
medical care and treatments during and after the war. Coffin
suffered from typhoid fever, gunshot wounds, hemorrhoids, chronic diarrhea,
and rheumatism.
Dates:
1880 - 1911
William M. Speed essay on marasmus
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/164
Scope and Contents
William M. Speed describes marasmus and its treatment, 1857. Titled "William M. Speed essay on marasmus presented to the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Medicine for the degree of doctor in medicine."
Dates:
1857-06-05
William McCall papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1998-009
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains information on a correspondence course in personal health taken by McCall. The course was put out by 20th Century Health Institute, Inc., with lessons prepared by John X. Loughran, Ph.D. There are two volumes with a total of 52 lessons. Topics include colds, sleep, diet, complexion, hygiene, foot health, ulcers, and cancer.
Dates:
1937
William Melville Hart scrapbook on George E. Holtzapple
Item
Identifier: 10c 141
Scope and Contents
Commemorative scrapbook presented to George Holatzapple on May 22, 1936, at his seventy-fourth birthday party. Contains correspondence, a radio broadcast script, and newspclippings, to commemorate the eariliset administration of oxygen in the treatment of pneumonia, which was performed by Holtzapple in 1885.
Dates:
1935 - 1936
William N. Bradley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/008
Scope and Contents
This small collection of William N. Bradley's papers consists
of several series. Series 1 contains manuscripts and typescripts
of Bradley's radio broadcasts( 1923-1942); most of these broadcasts concern
matters of child health and hygiene. Bradley's addresses (1918-1934),
also concerned with child health, are preserved in Series 2.
The texts of all of his radio broadcasts and a considerable
portion of his unpublished addresses are preserved in these
two series. The typescript of an...
Dates:
1917 - 1946
William Osler Abbott papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/015
Scope and Contents
The William Osler Abbott papers consists of two collections. The first collection contains correspondence, reprints, and health and biographical notes, and was assembled by Catherine Leek, Abbott's secretary at the Gastro Intestinal
Clinic at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.The second collection documents his work with T. Grier
Miller on intestinal intubation at the Gastro Intestinal Clinic and includes a technique book and correspondence, as well as records...
Dates:
1931 - 1949
William Osler patient records from the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/145-01
Scope and Contents
Clinical records of patients under care of William Osler in wards MM and WM at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1889. In addition to Osler’s notes, patient records contain notes by James Tyson (Osler’s successor in professorship of clinical medicine at the University) and two resident physicians, Joseph Leidy and L. L. Mial. Several examples of cases of Bright’s disease, dyspepsia, tuberculosis, rheumatism, and typhoid fever.
Dates:
1887 - 1889
William Paul Crillon Barton manuscript on the history of Jefferson Medical College
Collection
Identifier: Z10 2
Scope and Contents
One volume (47 leaves) of an allegorical essay on the spirit of competition that existed between the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the newly founded Jefferson Medical College. A 15 page typewritten transcript is included with the manuscript.
Dates:
1830
William Penn patent to William Markham, Robert Turner, John Goodson, and Samuel Carpenter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 453
Scope and Contents
This patent authorizes a grant of seven acres to Griffith Owen. It is signed by John Goodson, Robert Turner, and William Markham and has a wax seal attached.
Dates:
1693 April 6
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