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Stanley Plotkin papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/353
Overview
Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D., has authored and co-authored over 700 publications and developed the standard rubella vaccination which is used worldwide. He is the co-developer of the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine, and has worked extensively on the development and application of other vaccines including anthrax, oral polio, rabies, varicella, and cytomegalovirus. The collection houses reprints, correspondence, testimonies, and lab reports, pertaining to the controversy of the origin of HIV and its...
Dates:
1956-1959, 1999-2003
Stephen Cheek essay on yellow fever
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/103
Scope and Contents
"An inaugural essay on yellow fever: presented to the faculty of the Philadelphia College of Medicine for
the degree of doctor in medicine"
Cheek maintains yellow fever itself is not contagious but communicable only under certain climatic
conditions. He then discusses the yellow fever outbreak in New Orleans in 1853 and describes symptoms
and possible methods of treatment.
Dates:
undated
Sturgis-Faber collection
Collection
Identifier: P-SFABER
Overview
Medical illustrations, portraits, and other original artwork by Hermann Faber, and his two sons, Ludwig E. and Erwin F., of Philadelphia, for George A. Piersol's 1907 edition of Human Anatomy and other publications. Approximately 300 items in 6 boxes. A full inventory of the items is available in the Library's card catalog.
Dates:
circa 1907
Sturgis Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: P-STURGIS
Overview
The Sturgis Photograph Collection was donated to the College in the early 1980s by Doctors Katharine R. and Samuel B. Sturgis. It contains a large number of the College's pictures and oversize documents (diplomas, certificates, etc.). The subjects of the materials range from portraits of physicians, early hospital buildings, group photographs of medical societies, and class photographs of medical school students, to lecture matriculation cards and medical illustrations. Researchers should...
Dates:
undated
Subscribers lists for the stacks fund
Item
Identifier: CPP 13/010-04
Overview
Previously catalogued as 10a 285.
Dates:
1897
Surgical Case Records of Presbyterian Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 429
Overview
Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1871 by the Alliance of Philadelphia Presbyteries as a 45-bed facility on 2.5 acres. The incorporators declared the purpose was “to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and disabled...” Care and nursing was granted to the indigent of Philadelphia, funded by donations from individuals and Presbyterian churches, to fulfill its Christian mission. This commitment was renewed in 1952, when the trustees of the Hospital voted against moving...
Dates:
1892-1894
Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS 441
Overview
Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels. This book, and others, were part of a series called “Self and Sex,” and were published by Stall’s publishing company, Vir Publishing Company, between 1897 and 1904.The Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company span the years 1899 to 1911, and documents the activities of the...
Dates:
1899-1911
T. Schöninger notes on the lectures of J. M. Chelius
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/205
Scope and Contents
Volume contains notes taken by T. Schöninger on the lectures of J. M. Chelius on ophthalmology and diseases of the eye. Major subjects include cataract and diseases of the conjunctiva.
Dates:
1829
Taunton Lunatic Asylum casebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/011
Booksellers' description
Patient index included.240 entries with patients' names, family histories, financial status, and mental state. The records contain detailed information about patients' occupations, whether taxes had ever been paid, original depature sites, ships sailed on, time in America, and extensive genealogies. A number died while in the hospital; many were dispersed to different locations. Occasionally, ship's passage was arranged for people to go home. Some records note the prognosis but in...
Dates:
1854 - 1868
Teratology Society records (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 2003-007
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of records of the Teratology Society. Materials include photographs, slides, and postcards from meetings; meeting agendas and programs; council notebooks from 1992 to 1994, which include minutes and committee reports; information on the history of the Society, including reprints of articles from the journal Teratology; items used in an exhibit at the 2003 meeting; an article entitled "Historical Reflections."; a supplement from the third teratology workshop, 1966; and an...
Dates:
1964-2003
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- Correspondence 346
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- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 36
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- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
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- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 39
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
- University of Pennsylvania 18
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
- Jefferson Medical College 15
- Philadelphia General Hospital 14
- Rush, Benjamin 14
- Fisher, Charles Perry 13
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
- Mütter Museum 10
- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
- Chapman, Nathaniel 9
- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Physick, Philip Syng 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
- Blockley Almshouse 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
- Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
- Parrish, Joseph 4
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Hinsdale, Guy 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
- Pancoast, Joseph 3
- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
- Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases 3
- Sizer, Nelson 3
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- United States Naval Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Wallace, Ellerslie 3
- Wistar, Caspar 3
- Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark) 3
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