Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
George Bacon Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-04
Overview
The George Bacon Wood Papers collection documents George Bacon Wood’s professional and personal life from 1813 to 1870. Dr. George Bacon Wood was an accomplished physician and author, and also lectured at several medical institutions in the Philadelphia region. Materials located in the collection include correspondence, manuscript drafts, lecture notes, financial material, and some graphic material. The collection contains six series arranged by their relative size: “Correspondence,”...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1813-1870; 1793-1921
Lewis Condict letter to Franklin Bache
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/188
Scope and Contents
Condict discusses plans for 1840 National Medical Convention to revise U.S. Pharmacopoeia and encourages participation of apothecaries and pharmaceutical organizations.
Dates:
1832-06-29
Records of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 3/001
Scope and Contents
The records of the National Convention for Revising the Pharmacopoeia cover the fourth meeting (1850) and the fifth meeting (1860).The records of the fourth meeting documents the labors and progress of the Committee
of Revision and Publication from 1850 to 1855. Included are
the committee's minute books; records of the distribution of
the Pharmacopoeia; a draft report on the committee's work sent
by George Bacon Wood to Harvey Lindsly, the secretary of the
National Convention,...
Dates:
1850-1855; 1858-1864
