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Tuberculosis

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Katharine R. Sturgis papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/355
Overview Katharine Rosenbaum Guest Boucot Sturgis was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1903. She received her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1935. She was forced to leave school when she contracted tuberculosis, but later resumed her studies and earned her medical degree in 1940. Sturgis became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1951 and was elected its first female president in 1972. The Katharine R....
Dates: Majority of material found within 1948 - 1979; 1852 - 1985

Lecture notes from the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/116
Scope and Contents Notes from clinics on medical subjects given by faculty at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, 28 Feb. 1902-19 Apr. 1902. Occasional notes from A. E. Turman’s observations of clinics at Bellevue Hospital and the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, Feb. 1902, included. Also included are recipes and notes on materia medica, 1906, and one folder of prescriptions. Topics addressed at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School include diseases of the ear, nose,...
Dates: 1902 - 1906

William Hutt address to the 7th International Congress on Tuberculosis

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/098
Scope and Contents Holograph, 24 p., and typescript copy, 10 p., of Hutt’s address to 7th International Congress on Tuberculosis, Rome, Italy, 1911. Hutt describes his work in the 1870s with Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City Mission to establish first hospital for consumptives at the House of Mercy and promote outdoor method of treatment for tuberculosis.
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