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Autograph case of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP-AUTO
Scope and Contents
Autograph collections were popular during the 19th century. Individual collectors and libraries sought autographs, manuscripts, letters, and signatures of well-known people. The Historical Medical Library maintains its own collection of autographs, likely compiled by previous librarians. The collection consists mainly of correspondence; however, a good number are facsimiles of the original held at other institutions. Please visit the link below for an inventory of the autographs...
Dates:
circa 1800-1900
Benjamin W. Austin autograph collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/268
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters was assembled by Benjamin W.
Austin, often functioning as secretary of the Trinity Historical
Society in Dallas, Texas, 1885-1894. The letters are from physicians,
several of them eclectic or homeopathic, accepting honorary
or non resident membership in the society and responding to
Austin's request for autographs, photographs, and pamphlets.
Some biographical data is included.
Responding physicians are: J. R. Black, Delavan Bloodgood, H....
Dates:
1885 - 1894
George Haynes ledger
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/026
Scope and Contents
Volume contains accounts of Haynes’ medical practice in various towns of Vermont in Orleans,
Washington, and Caledonia counties.
Dates:
1833
George J. Hermann daybooks and diaries
Item
Identifier: MSS 414
Overview
George Joseph Hermann was born in 1873 in Newport, Kentucky, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1894. In April 1895, he set up his own practice in Newport, Kentucky. Hermann operated as the general physician for Newport, and later served on the Board of Trustees for Speers Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and taught anatomy at the Nurses’ Training School of Speers Hospital. He died on June 8, 1933, after a two-months long illness.This collection consists of two bound...
Dates:
1892-1898
J. H. Marsden papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/066
Scope and Contents
One volume documents medical practice, 1847-1861, of J. H. Marsden, homeopathic physician in Adams County, Pa. Lists charges and payments, made often with goods or services, for each patient and information concerning occupation of each patient; bulk spans 1847 to 1861 with occasional entries through 1870s. One folder of material laid in ledger contains bills, receipts, promissary notes, and miscellaneous financial papers, 1851-1881. Index to ledger account names included.A second...
Dates:
1847 - 1861
J.W. Porter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/156
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains 31 bills, receipts, and account
statements sent by five homeopathic physicians in the Champaign
and Urbana area to J. W. Porter, 1877-1897. The physicians
are: T. J. Merryman, J. E. Morrison, George R. Spooner, F. O'Dee
Springer, and C. D. Tufford. Many of the bills and accounts
concern treatments with electricity.
Dates:
1877 - 1897
Lisabeth Holloway collection of biographical information on physicians
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/290
Scope and Contents
Collection contains assembled biographical and educational data on physicians and surgeons, 1663-1977; bulk
of information concerns regular, homeopathic, and eclectic American 19th century practitioners. Collection
includes photocopies of published alumni catalogues and directories, course announcements, membership
directories, and miscellaneous sources. Series 1.1 contains lists of alumni and matriculants, 1749-1955, with
folder of information on Americans attending foreign medical schools,...
Dates:
1663 - 1977
Myles Synnott papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/011
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of Myles Synnott's diploma from
Jefferson Medical College, 1831, and financial records, 1834-1866,
from his Glassboro practice. These financial records consist
of a daybook, 1854-1861, with a chronological listing of patients
and a summary of the transaction, and four ledgers, numbered
B through E, 18341866. The ledgers are organized by name of
patient with the date and reason for transaction. Each volume
contains an index to the patients' names. There are...
Dates:
1831 - 1870
Richard von Volkmann papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/227
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters received by Richard
von Volkmann and one letter sent by him. The letters, spanning 1867
to 1889, cover the last twenty years of Volkmann's life, when
he had achieved international fame and recognition. The correspondents
in the collection are notable physicians, surgeons, and professors
from Germany, England, France, Russia, and the United States.
Most of the letters are written in German; some are written
in French and English. English...
Dates:
1867 - 1889
Washington L. Atlee correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 386
Overview
Washington Lemuel Atlee was born in Lancaster, PA, on February 22, 1808. He began studying medicine under his eldest brother, Dr. John Light Atlee, at the age of 15. By 1826, when Atlee started his formal medical education at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA, he had already attended over 40 obstetrics cases. He graduated from Jefferson in the spring of 1829 after completing two full courses of lectures.In 1844, Atlee accepted the position of Chair of Medical...
Dates:
1851 - 1855
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