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Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/348
Overview
The Daniel Joseph McCarthy Papers document portions of McCarthy’s medical career, particularly his writings and addresses on psychiatry and medical jurisprudence. As a prominent neurologist and medical jurisprudence expert, McCarthy treated wounded soldiers in the First World War, taught for thirty-five years at the University of Pennsylvania, and founded several research and benevolent medical foundations. The collection contains three series; “Writings and Addresses,” “Subject Files,” and...
Dates:
1902, 1921-1933, undated
Edmund B. Piper papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/017
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Edmund B. Piper Papers consists of two
items of correspondence received, 1918 and 1924; and typescripts of five speeches, 1915-1931. The collection documents Piper's experiences in World War I and his work with the treatment of septicemia.In Series 1, the letter, dated 28 June 1918, by Robert G. LeConte to Piper describes an offensive attack on a French mobile hospital and conditions at Hospital No.1 at Neuilly. The letter from Irene F. Lamb of Women's...
Dates:
1915 - 1931
George W. Outerbridge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/138
Scope and Contents
The George W. Outerbridge Papers, 1916-1919, contain letters
and postcards, a fragment of a diary, and photographs, documenting Outerbridge's
experiences as a member of the Pennsylvania Hospital Unit in
France during World War I.Series 1 contains letters, 1917-1918, addressed by Outerbridge
to family members, particularly his father, A. E. Outerbridge,
and aunt, Laura C. Outerbridge. The letters describe Outerbridge's transatlantic
voyage, conditions in France, and the daily...
Dates:
1916 - 1919
Lester Lovett Powell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 435
Overview
Lester Lovett Powell was born in 1875 in either Saco or Biddeford, Maine. He received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1905. Powell served in the U.S. military as a physician in France during World War I. He died in 1938.His military service:
Drafted into Federal Serv: as 1st Lt MC from NG; Capt Nov. 15/18. Org: 1st Me HFA; 101 Inf to Dec. 25/17; 101 MG Bn; Unasgd to disch. Eng: Aisne-Marne; St Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne; Defensive Sector. Wounded in action: Oct. 28/18....
Dates:
1918; undated
Record of the Fellows of the College of physicians who participated in the World War
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/012
Dates:
1914-1918
William J. Taylor correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/264
Scope and Contents
This collection of William J. Taylor's letters spans 1892
to 1933. The letters are divided into four sections: Taylor's
outgoing letters, some of which were written during World War
I; incoming letters from other physicians offering or requesting
advice about surgical procedures; incoming letters from Mary
Scott Newbold lecturers; and miscellaneous incoming letters.
Section 1 contains Taylor's outgoing letters to John B. Roberts
and Charles Perry Fisher. Two of the letters to Fisher...
Dates:
1892 - 1933