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Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery
Collection
Identifier: MSS 467
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains material related to the case surrounding the grave robbing at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia and the subsequent Anatomy Act in Pennsylvania. Also included are notes (1880-1881) acknowledging receipt of museum specimens, reports and lists of bodies delivered to medical schools (1881), and W. S. Forbes' History of the Anatomy-Act of Pennsylvania (1898).
Dates:
1879-1898; 1935-1937
Found in:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery
Gamaliel Bradford daybook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/225
Scope and Contents
Chronological record of Gamaliel Bradford’s medical practice, 1819 Sept. 12-1822 Dec. 31 (gap, 1821 Mar. 11-Aug. 1) in Boston, 1819-1820, and Cambridge, Mass., 1820-1822. Entries list patient attended, reason for visit or procedure, and fee charged with notes on settlement of the account. Includes monthly summary of accounts. Includes occasional notes from Gamaliel Bradford, including one, dated July 1821, where he specifies accounts which, in the event of his death, are not to be pursued by...
Dates:
1819 - 1826
George S. Crampton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/189
Scope and Contents
This small collection of biographical information, correspondence,
photographs, maps, and awards, 1894-1988, highlights notable
events in the career of George Sumner Crampton.Series 1 contains biographical information, primarily printed,
1894-1988, concerning George S. Crampton, his work, and his
wife's family, the Smedes family. A miscellaneous collection of Crampton's correspondence, 1903-1959,
is in Series 2. Most of these letters are personal, though
many...
Dates:
1894 - 1959
Helen F. Barton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/256
Scope and Contents
The papers of Helen F. Barton, spanning 1896 to 1930, consist
of photographs, an autograph album, clippings, and typescripts,
all of which relate to the Philadelphia General Hospital and
its Training School for Nurses.Series 1 contains twelve photographs taken at Philadelphia General
Hospital, probably around 1896. Included are photographs of
nurses and interns, the hospital grounds and buildings, and
the Nurses' Home. Present is a photograph of an operation being
performed...
Dates:
1896 - 1930
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
Jesse Elmer Shuman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/250
Scope and Contents
This small collection, 1885-1935, documents Jesse Elmer Shuman's
medical education at the University of Pennsylvania and the
Medical Institute of Philadelphia and includes matriculation
and lecture admission tickets, lecture schedules, examination
questions, and a recipe book. Also included are some newsclippings,
a volume of notes used from 1912-1931, for lectures on materia
medica, and an undated typescript address on angina pectoris.
Dates:
1885 - 1935
Joseph G. Richardson papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 432
Overview
Joseph Gibbons Richardson was born in Philadelphia in 1836. He earned his M.D. in 1862 from the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a lecturer on pathological anatomy and professor of hygiene. Richardson is best known for his contributions to the field of medical microscopy. He died in Philadelphia in 1886.The Joseph G. Richardson papers date from 1862 to 1887, and document Richardson’s professional career as a physician in 19th-century Philadelphia, including letters to...
Dates:
1862-1887; undated
Joseph Leidy papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/170-01
Scope and Contents
Letters received: Organized into five series: I. Correspondence, 1847-1890. II. University of Pennsylvania, 1853-1891. III. Notes and Drawings, 1874-1882. IV. Newsclippings, 1876-1933. V. Leidy Biography, 1845-1933. arranged alphabetically by correspondent, then chronologically.Letters, notes, and drawings, newsclippings, and unpublished biography written by Joseph Leidy II. Bulk of collection consists of letters received by Joseph Leidy, 1852-1890, concerning anatomy, fossils,...
Dates:
1845 - 1933
Kane-Foulke family papers
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/108
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters and printed material, 1886-1932,
concerning members of the Kane and Foulke families contains
a memorial resolution on John K. Kane by the Board of Health
of the State of Delaware, 1886; newsclippings, 1894, which document
a controversy between J. Cheston Morris and George Rhyfedd Foulke
over tuberculosis in cattle; and a letter, 8 August 1932, from
Emlen Wood, Acting Librarian of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, to Mrs. George Rhyfedd Foulke,...
Dates:
1886 - 1932
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
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