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Robert Patterson ledger
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/216
Scope and Contents
Ledger documenting medical practice of physician R. H. Patterson in Somerset Co., Pa., from 1844 to 1849. Each account contains chronological list of charges and payments; several accounts remained unsettled until 1852. Many patients identified by profession or relationship to other individuals. Ledger also includes notes on volumes loaned to other physicians by R. H. Patterson.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1844 - 1849
Robert S. Pressman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/356
Overview
Robert S. Pressman graduated from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1946 and received a Master of Medical Science degree in Internal Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania. Pressman served as an Associate Professor of Medicine at Temple University and as head of the infectious diseases section at the Albert Einstein Medical Center. He was a president of the Philadelphia County Medical Society and of the Pennsylvania Society of Internal Medicine. He also served as president of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1934 - 1985; 1856 - 1996
Robley Dunglison autobiographical ana
Collection
Identifier: MSS 437
Overview
Robley Dunglison was born in Keswick, England, on 4 January 1798. He attended the Royal College of Surgeons in 1818, received a license as surgeon apothecary from the Society of Apothecaries, and began practice in 1819. In 1823, he received an M.D. from the University of Erlangen. From 1823 to 1833, Dunglison was professor of medicine at the University of Virginia; from 1833 to 1836, he was professor of medicine at the University of Maryland. In 1836, he came to Philadelphia to become...
Dates:
circa 1852-1862
Russell E. Morgan account book and appointment book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/301
Scope and Contents
Daybook, 1936 Sept. 16-1936 Dec. 31, of Russell E. Morgan’s first months of medical practice in Annville, Lebanon Co., Pa., lists patients, brief descriptions of services rendered, and account settlements; monthly summaries of income and expenses included. Appointment book, 1940, lists patients and account settlements.
Dates:
1936 - 1940
S. Rush Ketcham casebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/302
Scope and Contents
Casebook, 1905-1915, of S. Rush Ketcham, documenting general medical practice in Philadelphia, Pa. Entries list patient name, address, age, medical history, diagnosis, and prescription. Includes several ophthalmological examinations and one folder of items laid in.
Dates:
1894 - 1915; Majority of material found within 1905 - 1915
Samuel D. Gross correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/135
Scope and Contents
The Samuel D. Gross papers consist of two collections, including records of the American Surgical Association correspondence, photographs, and newsclippings. For a more detailed description of the materials included, please the "Scope and Content" note for each item.
Dates:
1851 - 1899
Samuel W. Gross papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/203
Scope and Contents
Autographs of Philadelphia physicians, formerly in the possession of Samuel W. Gross, contains circa 900 death or interment certificates written by Philadelphia area physicians from 1806 to 1835. The certificates, arranged in a rough chronological order, indicate the common causes and ages of mortality in the city during the early 19th century.Each certificate attests to the cause and date of death, giving the name and age of the deceased. Many of the certificates concern...
Dates:
1806-1835
Silas Weir Mitchell correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 436
Overview
Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Mitchell worked as a contract surgeon in Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, an army hospital for nervous diseases. was actively involved in numerous local and national medical societies. He was founder and first president of the American Neurological Society and first president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society. In later...
Dates:
1865-1938; Majority of material found in 1883-1887; 1910-1911
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
St. John W. Mintzer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/019
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection of the papers of St.John Watkins
Mintzer documents the life and career of a 19th century physician,
soldier, and businessman. Although the bulk of the papers concern
his administration of Civil War hospitals, the collection also
contains information about the operation of Philadelphia's eclectic
medical schools, the work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
and Mississippi, and some unusual business ventures of the day.Materials preserved in Series 1...
Dates:
1847 - 1912
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