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Aaron Burr Tucker notes on the lectures of Philip Syng Physick
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Identifier: 10b 14
Scope and Contents
One volume (232 pages) of notes on surgery lectures delivered by Philip Syng Physick at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dates:
1809 - 1812
Charles P. Mercer notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/150
Scope and Contents
The three Charles P. Mercer notebooks contain a record of his
education in the University of Pennsylvania's Department of
Medicine, 1887-1890. Mercer describes cases presented at the Hospital of the University
of Pennsylvania during the clinical instruction of Francis X.
Dercum, William Osler, William Pepper, and Horatio C. Wood.
Several of Osler's cases were presented at Philadelphia Hospital
and the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for
Nervous Diseases. ...
Dates:
1887 - 1890
E. B. Krumbhaar papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Overview
Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Emlen Wood notes on the lectures of E.T. Reichert
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Identifier: Z10 217
Scope and Contents
One volume (unbound) of notes on physiology lectures delivered by Edward T. Reichert. Lectures are dated from 2 October 1911 to 26 January 1912.
Dates:
1911 - 1912
G. H. Wikoff notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
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Identifier: Z10 5
Scope and Contents
The two volumes contain notes on lectures by Chapman, the first of which is dated 1833. The lectures were delivered either at the University of Pennsylvania or at the Medical Institute of Philadelphia. Volume one (211 numbered leaves) contains lectures on pathology, nosology, circulatory system, fevers, practice of medicine, hemorrhages, digestive system. Volume two (222 numbered leaves) contains lectures on diseases of the skin, respiratory system, muscles, dropsy, scrofula, marasmus,...
Dates:
circa 1833
George F. Lehman notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
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Identifier: 10a 239
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine.
Dates:
1810 - 1811
Jacob Jeanes notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
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Identifier: 10a 365
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of notes taken by Jacob Jeanes on the beginning lectures by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine delivered in the winter session of 1821-1822. Vol. 1 (225 pages) contains lectures on fevers. Vol. 2 (251 pages) contains lectures on hemorrhages and diseases of the digestive system. Vol. 2 also bears note “corrected in the winter of 1822-1823” and has many pencil annotations.
Dates:
1821 - 1822
Jesse Elmer Shuman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/250
Scope and Contents
This small collection, 1885-1935, documents Jesse Elmer Shuman's
medical education at the University of Pennsylvania and the
Medical Institute of Philadelphia and includes matriculation
and lecture admission tickets, lecture schedules, examination
questions, and a recipe book. Also included are some newsclippings,
a volume of notes used from 1912-1931, for lectures on materia
medica, and an undated typescript address on angina pectoris.
Dates:
1885 - 1935
John Ashhurst, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/075-02
Overview
The John Ashhurst Papers collection documents the life and professional career of Dr. John Ashhurst from 1846 to 1901. John Ashhurst was a prominent Philadelphia surgeon who worked at the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as well as the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He also wrote extensively on the subject of surgery, writing the book The Principles and Practice of Surgery, which was published in several editions. Located in the collection are...
Dates:
1846-1901, undated
John Marshall Paul notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
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Identifier: 10a 410
Scope and Contents
One volume containing notes by John Marshall Paul, M.D. on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman at the University of Pennsylvania on epidemiology, diseases of the digestive system, and colic. With the manuscript is a typescript biography of Dr. Paul on the stationery of Dr. Lancelot Ely, Somerville, NJ, and a typescript letter dated Mar. 15, 1939, from Frank Overton, M.D., editor of the Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey to Dr. Ely, regarding Dr. Paul’s non-membership in the...
Dates:
circa 1819 - 1822
