Pathology
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel J. Swinney papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/085
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Daniel J. Swinney's student lecture
notes and related papers, recipe book, daybook, and vaccination
records, 1808-1827, documents the education and early medical
career of an obscure country physician during the early 19th
century.The collection is divided into two series. Series 1 concerns
Swinney's medical education at the University of Pennsylvania,
1808-1809, and includes a receipt for his 1808-1809 session
fee; an 1809 copy of Benjamin Rush's...
Dates:
1808 - 1827
E. B. Krumbhaar papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Overview
Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Fred D. Weidman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/182
Scope and Contents
The collection of Fred D. Weidman's papers, 1896-1933 contains
student notebooks and papers; correspondence and reports concerning
a 1926 survey on fungal disease; drawings and photographs; and
some miscellaneous writings.The bulk of the collection is concerned with Weidman's education,
both in secondary school and in the Department of Medicine at
the University of Pennsylvania. Series 1 contains 28 volumes
of student notes on many subjects. The notes from Weidman's
medical...
Dates:
1896 - 1933
Historical Medical Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: HMP
Scope and Contents
Since photography was invented in the mid-19th century, it has been used for medical purposes. The collection contains more than 4,000 photographs and showcases a variety of patients with diseases, injuries, and malformations, such as Civil War amputations, conjoined twins, and birth defects.
Please see the inventory linked below for further details.
Please see the inventory linked below for further details.
Dates:
1865-1974, undated
John Freeman notes on lectures from the University of Michigan
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/107
Scope and Contents
J. F. Summerville’s student lecture notes from the University of Michigan, Department of Medicine and Surgery, 1879-1881.
Lecturers are: G. E. Frothingham on ophthalmology (pp. 160); Donald Maclean on surgery (pp. 199 and 316-320d); Alonzo B. Palmer on pathology (pp. 217-240; 100-120; 401-484); Edward S. Dunster on obstetrics (pp. 121-180; 286-300; 321-360; 485-490); Corydon L. Ford on anatomy and physiology (pp. 181-209); William James Herdman on pathological anatomy (pp. 209-215); John W....
Dates:
1879 - 1881
John H. Fager notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/133
Scope and Contents
Student notes taken by John H. Fager on lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on practice of physic and pathology, poisons, and epidemics, at University of Pennsylvania, 1827. Includes notes on several authors concerning practice of medicine and descriptions and specifics for common diseases.
Dates:
circa 1827
Joseph McFarland papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/346
Overview
The Joseph McFarland papers consist of two collections and documents Dr. McFarland’s medical career, particularly his involvement in parotid tumor and tetanus vaccination research from 1900 to 1943. Dr. McFarland was born in Philadelphia on February 9th, 1868, and received his M.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1889. He continued to study and teach on pathology at various institutions in Philadelphia throughout his career. The collection contains two series, “Correspondence” and...
Dates:
1895-1943, undated
Notes on influenza at OC 16 (Philadelphia, U.S.) General Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 449
Scope and Contents
This small collection consists of handwritten notes and letters. The first few pages of notes are written on the backs of scrap Army Field Service: Infectious Diseases forms, and include subsequent handwritten addendums with notations on where they belong in the notes. The letters indicate that Bradbury and Krumbhaar intended their findings to be shared with authorities in the management of the Influenza Pandemic, and through publications.
Dates:
1918
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
William Shaw notes on the lectures of George H. B. Macleod
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/110
Scope and Contents
William J. Shaw’s notes on lectures of George H. B. Macleod on surgery at the University of Glasgow, 1874
Nov. 21-1875 Apr. 1. Lectures are numbered 1-91. Subjects are: surgical pathology, tumors, bone fractures, and
wounds and injuries of the head, spine, and neck.
Dates:
1874 - 1875
