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D. Heber Plank papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/277-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains ten volumes of financial papers documenting
the Morgantown, Pa., medical practice of D. Heber Plank, 1868-1908;
there are two ledgers and two combined ledger and cash books,
six daybooks, and associated financial papers.The ledgers and cash books, 1868-1908, are organized by account
name and list the service performed, date, and fee charged;
there are occasional notes on cases, patients, and settlement
of accounts. Each volume includes an index to...
Dates:
1868 - 1908
Daniel J. Swinney papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/085
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Daniel J. Swinney's student lecture
notes and related papers, recipe book, daybook, and vaccination
records, 1808-1827, documents the education and early medical
career of an obscure country physician during the early 19th
century.The collection is divided into two series. Series 1 concerns
Swinney's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania,
1808-1809, and includes a receipt for his 1808-1809 session
fee; an 1809 copy of Benjamin Rush's...
Dates:
1808 - 1827
E. A. Santee daybooks and ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/223-01
Scope and Contents
The collection, 1856-1888, contains five daybooks and four ledgers, documenting the medical practice and career of E. A. Santee at Lehman, Shickshinny, Hollenback, Hobbie, and Wapwallopen, in Luzerne County, Pa. Included are some notes and recipes from Jefferson Medical College. Also included are some cash accounts and a ledger of farming accounts of John Santee.
Dates:
1856 - 1911
Jeremiah B. Stubbs correspondence received
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/224
Scope and Contents
The collection contains fourteen letters received, 18361848,
by Jeremiah B. Stubbs, primarily from his brother, S. B. Stubbs,
with matriculation and lecture admission tickets, 1826, from
Jefferson Medical College. Several of the letters from S. B. Stubbs and one letter from Samuel
Webster describe the conditions, faculty, medical education,
and student life at Jefferson during the 1830s and early 1840s;
some comparisons are drawn between courses and faculty at Jefferson
and...
Dates:
1826 - 1848
John G. Metcalf ledger
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/051
Scope and Contents
Financial ledger of John G. Metcalf for practice in Mendon, Mass., and surrounding Worcester County,
18441883.
Includes payments in goods or services and occasional notes on inability to pay due to
poverty or death. Several patients served and died in Civil War, including Samuel Everton (p. 143)
"starved to death by the Rebels at Andersonville, Ga." in 1864. Includes occasional accounts with Town of
Mendon for Metcalf’s services as treasurer and for visiting schools.Index to names...
Dates:
1844 - 1883
Peirce family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/308
Scope and Contents
The collection contains medical education and personal papers,
1824-1895, of three physicians of the Peirce family of Maine.
Series 1 includes volumes of notes, 1824-1825, taken by James
H. Peirce on Nathan Smith's lectures on surgery and the theory
and practice of physic at the Medical School of Maine. One
volume of notes on the anatomy and physiology lectures of John
D. Wells is included. The series also includes Peirce's rough
notes for an essay, probably his medical...
Dates:
1824 - 1895
Thomas F. and William A. Madill papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/035
Scope and Contents
This collection of twelve of Thomas F. Madill's daybooks (1857-1892)
spans almost his entire professional career and gives a comprehensive
view of the daily practice of a country physician in the towns
of central Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The daybook entries
are chronological and provide each patient's name, a brief description
of the medical work, and the charge involved. Many entries
refer to pages in a ledger which has not survived as part of
the collection. An interesting...
Dates:
1857 - 1898
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