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James Tyson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 442
Overview James Tyson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1841. He earned his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1863, and served as acting assistant surgeon in the United States Army and resident physician at the Pennsylvania Hospital. Later he served as professor of pathology at Penn. Tyson succeeded William Pepper as chair in the practice of medicine, a position he held until 1914. He was elected a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1866, and served as its...
Dates: circa 1873-1914; undated

Small collections of the Office of the President

 Series
Identifier: CPP 2/012
Overview This collection dates from 1908 to 1985, and consists of single files containing documentation left by various College Presidents. Researchers should note that there is not a substantial amount of information regarding any one President’s term found in this collection.

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Dates: 1908-1985

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

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