Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 348 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Willard Williams letter to John Wheeler
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/114
Scope and Contents
Letter from Henry Willard Williams to John Wheeler, 16 May 1877. Williams advises Wheeler on treatment of a patient’s chronic eyelid ailment.
Dates:
1877-05-16
Howard Mellor patient records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/052
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Howard Mellor's ophthalmological patient records, 1894-1906, gives a detailed understanding not only of his private practice in Philadelphia but also of ophthalmological practices, procedures, and prescriptions current at this time. The two volumes of patient records are arranged by number (assigned chronologically as admitted) and include each patient's name, age, address, ailment or complaint, and Mellor's detailed notes on the progress of the case. Each volume...
Dates:
1894 - 1921
Hugh Lenox Hodge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/350
Overview
The Hugh Lenox Hodge Papers collection documents portions of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge’s medical career. Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge was a prominent Philadelphia physician who specialized in obstetrics, becoming one of the most renowned figures in that field in the nineteenth century. Hodge also contributed to fighting the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia during 1832. The collection contains two series: “Correspondence,” and “Subject Files,” dating from 1817 to 1833, 1870, 1932, and undated. Materials in...
Dates:
1817-1833, 1870, 1932, undated
Isaac Hiester letter to Samuel Jackson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/143
Scope and Contents
Hiester recalls experience as student sent by Caspar Wistar to Germantown to report on outbreak of yellow fever among several families there, circa 1805. Letter describes physical situation of Germantown and location of houses of infected families.
Dates:
1821-08-24
J. Roberts Willson papers
Collection
Identifier: Acc. 1994-019
Scope and Contents
This collection has not been processed. However, the contents of the six boxes seem to be somewhat arranged in a comprehensive manner. The collection includes operation files; correspondence; reprints; speeches and other writings; photgraphs; and awards, certificates, and licenses.
Dates:
1914 - 1994
Jacob Solis-Cohen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/046
Scope and Contents
The John Solis Cohen papers consist of five collections. This first collection contains correspondence, addresses, and published and unpublished manuscripts of articles and textbooks documenting J. Solis Cohen's research, labors, and concerns in the fields of laryngology and tuberculosis throughout most of his professional career. The other four collections consist of three volumes of scrapbooks the case of Emperor Frederick III of Germany and seven volumes of lecture notes.For a...
Dates:
1856 - 1922
James Crichton-Browne correspondence with Burton Chance
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/101
Scope and Contents
Autograph and typed letters signed, 1926-1936,
from Sir James Crichton-Browne,
praising Burton
Chance’s writings on Sir William Lawrence, Sir James Hutchinson, and history of ophthalmology.
Crichton-Browne
includes account of his meeting with Sir William Lawrence in 1863. Includes autograph
letter signed of Audrey Crichton-Browne,
1938 Mar. 29, to Burton Chance concerning Crichton-Browne’s
death.
Dates:
1926 - 1936
James Q. Gant, Jr. correspondence received
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/192
Scope and Contents
Typed letters signed from John H. Stokes, 1940 Aug. 9, and Herman Beerman, 1940 Aug. 12, dermatologists at the University of Pennsylvania, to James Q. Gant, Jr., responding to inquiry about projected third volume of Louis A. Duhring’s Cutaneous medicine.
Dates:
1940
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
Jeremiah B. Stubbs correspondence received
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/224
Scope and Contents
The collection contains fourteen letters received, 18361848,
by Jeremiah B. Stubbs, primarily from his brother, S. B. Stubbs,
with matriculation and lecture admission tickets, 1826, from
Jefferson Medical College. Several of the letters from S. B. Stubbs and one letter from Samuel
Webster describe the conditions, faculty, medical education,
and student life at Jefferson during the 1830s and early 1840s;
some comparisons are drawn between courses and faculty at Jefferson
and...
Dates:
1826 - 1848
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