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Elijah Petty essay on pulmonary tuberculosis
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/007
Scope and Contents
Essay written by Elijah D. Petty in June, 1857, describes phthisis pulmonalis [pulmonary tuberculosis], its
cause, duration, termination, pathology, symptoms, and treatment.
Dates:
1857
George Douglass notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 459
Scope and Contents
One volume of notes on Chapman’s lectures on the practice of medicine. Internal references to Dr. Jackson, Professor of Practice, in Boston, and Dr. Physick’s recent experiments, imply a date prior to 1835. Lectures include diseases of the digestive and respiratory systems, dropsy, scrofula, and marasmus. Cullen’s classification of diseases is listed on the verso of the title page.
Dates:
between 1814 and 1824
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
Lecture notes from the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/116
Scope and Contents
Notes from clinics on medical subjects given by faculty at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital, 28 Feb. 1902-19 Apr. 1902. Occasional notes from A. E. Turman’s observations of clinics at Bellevue
Hospital and the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, Feb. 1902, included. Also included are
recipes and notes on materia medica, 1906, and one folder of prescriptions. Topics addressed at the New York
Post-Graduate Medical School include diseases of the ear, nose,...
Dates:
1902 - 1906
Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/074
Scope and Contents
This small collection of materials, 1893-1915, preserved by Mary
and Ruth Bradley, documents the life of Edward Livingston Trudeau,
physician and tuberculosis researcher, as well as the treatment
of tuberculosis patients at Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium
in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the 1890s.Series 1 contains two autographed letters, 1898 and circa 1902,
from Edward Livingston Trudeau to Mary Bradley. Series 2 is
an undated manuscript prescription by Trudeau for throat...
Dates:
1893 - 1915
Max B. Lurie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/115
Scope and Contents
The collection contains correspondence, personal papers, addresses,
and writings, 1926-1967, of Max B. Lurie, documenting his life,
professional career, and research into genetic resistance to
tuberculosis.Lurie's professional correspondence, 1928-1966, is preserved
in Series 1. Principal correspondents are Lurie's colleagues
or collaborators in tuberculosis research, many of them associated
with the Henry Phipps Institute of the University of Pennsylvania,
including Samuel...
Dates:
1926 - 1957
Solomon Solis-Cohen correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/049
Scope and Contents
Four typescript letters signed, 1911, from James Tyson and T. Mellor Tyson, concerning costs of patient
care at Country Branch of Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases, Malvern, Pa.
Dates:
1911
Truman Squire Potter speeches
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/149
Scope and Contents
Two addresses by Truman Squire Potter, "Respiratory disease parasites respire themselves and can be suffocated", (typescript, 10 p.), [ca. 1943], and "A pickle for a parasite", (typescript, 3 p.), [ca. 1943]; both concern research on vaccination against tuberculosis using asphyxiated mycobacterium tuberculosis. Includes press release, 1943 Dec. 3, concerning Potter’s work at Laboratory of Preventive Medicine of the University of Chicago.
Dates:
1943
William Hutt address to the 7th International Congress on Tuberculosis
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/098
Scope and Contents
Holograph, 24 p., and typescript copy, 10 p., of Hutt’s address to 7th International Congress on
Tuberculosis, Rome, Italy, 1911. Hutt describes his work in the 1870s with Philadelphia Protestant
Episcopal City Mission to establish first hospital for consumptives at the House of Mercy and promote
outdoor method of treatment for tuberculosis.
Dates:
1911
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
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