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Germantown Dispensary and Hospital correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 431
Overview
This small collection of correspondence relates to and documents some of the activies of the Germantown Dispensary and Hospital during the years 1903 tp 1908. Much of the correspondence is between doctors T. H. Shoemaker and Burton Chance regarding Chance's appointment as Ophthalmologist of the Hospital. Other letters involve the assigments and resignations of other staff members.The Germantown Dispensary (later Germantown Dispensary and Hospital) opened modestly in one room in...
Dates:
1903-1908
Harry Flickwir Baxter account book and casebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/322
Scope and Contents
The collection contains an account book, 1866-1872, and a casebook, 1864-1871, documenting the medical practice of Philadelphia, Pa. physician Harry Flickwir Baxter, 1844-1901. Items found interleaved in the casebook were removed and placed in folders. Series 1 contains the account book, 1866-1872. All accounts are listed under an individual, and the volume has a name index. The account book lists the patient, his or her address, services rendered and their cost, and payments made. The service...
Dates:
1864 - 1872
Henry Pleasants daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/270
Scope and Contents
Ledgers of accounts from medical practice of Henry Pleasants in Hamiltonville [West Philadelphia], Pa., 1835-1858. Lists reason for visit and fee charged.
Dates:
1835 - 1858
James Tyson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 442
Overview
James Tyson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1841. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1863, and served as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Later he served as professor of pathology at Penn. Tyson succeeded William Pepper as chair in the practice of medicine, a position he held until 1914. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1866, and served as its...
Dates:
circa 1873-1914; undated
Joseph G. Richardson papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 432
Overview
Joseph Gibbons Richardson was born in Philadelphia in 1836. He earned his M.D. in 1862 from the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a lecturer on pathological anatomy and professor of hygiene. Richardson is best known for his contributions to the field of medical microscopy. He died in Philadelphia in 1886.The Joseph G. Richardson papers date from 1862 to 1887, and document Richardson’s professional career as a physician in 19th-century Philadelphia, including letters to...
Dates:
1862-1887; undated
Joseph Hartshorne casebook
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/038-01
Scope and Contents
Records of Hartshorne’s practice in Philadelphia from Jan. to Mar., 1828. Each entry describes the patient’s symptoms or ailment with some background information, then lists Hartshorne’s prescription or treatment.
Index to patient names is included.
Index to patient names is included.
Dates:
1828
Joseph Toner manuscript on William Kent Gilbert
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/043
Scope and Contents
Manuscript in an unknown hand with pencilled emendations by J. M. Toner, [ca. 1881], describes William
Kent Gilbert’s background and education, professional career and work at the Philadelphia Alms House
and in private practice, and his collections of early American medical imprints, autographs, portraits, and
engravings.
Published in "Report on American Medical Necrology," Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. 32, 1881, p. 503.
Published in "Report on American Medical Necrology," Transactions of the American Medical Association, vol. 32, 1881, p. 503.
Dates:
1881
Katharine R. Sturgis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/355
Overview
Katharine Rosenbaum Guest Boucot Sturgis was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1903. She received her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1935. She was forced to leave school when she contracted tuberculosis, but later resumed her studies and earned her medical degree in 1940. Sturgis became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1951 and was elected its first female president in 1972. The Katharine R....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948 - 1979; 1852 - 1985
List of physicians of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/218
Scope and Contents
Document, circa 1797, written in hand of Benjamin Duffield, listing twenty-one physicians who are members of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Reverse contains list, written in hand of Caspar Wistar, of twelve physicians who are not members of the College. Internal evidence indicates list compiled after William Annan became a member, June 1796, and before his death on 4 Oct. 1797.
Dates:
circa 1797
Nicholas Chervin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/141
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of fifty-seven responses from fifty-six Philadelphia physicians to Chervin's 1821 survey concerning each physician's experiences with and beliefs regarding the contagious nature of yellow fever.
Dates:
1821 - 1832
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