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Edward Oram Shakespeare papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/338
Scope and Contents
The papers of Edward Oram Shakespeare reflect the versatility of his interests. The bulk of the
medically-related papers concern his work on the Cholera Commission, as an attendee at the
International Sanitary Conference and during his service in the Spanish American War. Other
medical material includes publications and correspondence. Most of non-medical material consists
of family papers, which contain a great deal of genealogical material.Original order was almost completely...
Dates:
1727 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1900
Hugh Lenox Hodge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/350
Overview
The Hugh Lenox Hodge Papers collection documents portions of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge’s medical career. Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge was a prominent Philadelphia physician who specialized in obstetrics, becoming one of the most renowned figures in that field in the nineteenth century. Hodge also contributed to fighting the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia during 1832. The collection contains two series: “Correspondence,” and “Subject Files,” dating from 1817 to 1833, 1870, 1932, and undated. Materials in...
Dates:
1817-1833, 1870, 1932, undated
Roland G. Curtin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/215
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Roland G. Curtin's papers, 18791912,
contains holographs and typescripts of articles and speeches
with bibliographies of Curtin's works. Some items in the collection
include related letters or notes describing cases and reference
material.Several of the speeches and articles concern heart disease and
its treatments. Other noteworthy items are a speech on medical
symbolism; obituaries of James B. Walker and DejForest
Willard; and Curtin's description...
Dates:
1879 - 1912
William Bishop essay on cholera
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/160
Scope and Contents
William Bishop relates history, symptoms, cause, nature, and treatment of Asiatic cholera, 1859.
Dates:
1859-02-23
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