University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine
Organization
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander Jackson notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/196
Scope and Contents
Alexander Jackson’s notes, 26 January through 27 February 1824, from lectures in Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Includes occasional diagrams and subject index. Lecturers include: Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine, John Redman Coxe on materia medica, William Gibson on surgery, and William P. Dewees and Thomas C. James on midwifery. Includes occasional notes on Robert Hare on chemistry and Philip Syng Physick on anatomy.
Dates:
1824
Charles G. Fowler lecture notes from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/027
Scope and Contents
The three volumes of Charles G. Fowler's collection of lecture
notes documents the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
circa 1826. Volumes 1 and 2 consist of detailed notes from
Nathaniel Chapman's course on Practice, Institutes, and Clinical
Medicine. The notes describe the causes, symptoms, and treatment
of fevers, blood diseases, consumption, asthma, and stomach
disorders. There is a brief contemporary table of contents to
Volume 1; a complete listing of contents for...
Dates:
circa 1826-1828
Charles G. Strohecker notes on the lectures of William Darrach
Item
Identifier: MSS 411
Scope and Contents note
Notes taken from lectures by William Darrach at the University of Pennsylvania by C. G. Strohecker, 1845-1846. Notes are on diseases, including influenza, yellow fever, dropsy, typhus fever, small pox, and various inflammations. The volume includes some color illustrations and a syllabus of Dr. Darrach's lectures. There are also a number of poems at the back of the volume.
Dates:
1845-1846
Charles H. Frazier papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/033
Scope and Contents
The Charles H. Frazier Papers are divided into three series:
a general file, 1901-1941; medical manuscripts, papers, and
reprints, 1914-1942; and a medical case file [patient records],
1900-1945.
Series 1 contains biographical and bibliographical data of Charles
H. Frazier; his correspondence; instructional notes and other
documents related to his teaching of medicine; records of the
various activities, medical as well as social, in which he was
engaged; and personal and miscellaneous...
Dates:
1900 - 1945
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
Edgar Buyers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/154
Scope and Contents
Volume of student notes taken by Edgar S. Buyers on physiology lectures, probably of Edward Tyson Reichert, at the University of Pennsylvania, 1898-1899.
Dates:
1898 - 1899
Edward A. Schumann papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/244
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters, pathological specimen registers,
speeches and writings, and miscellaneous material, 1903-1963,
documents the career and obstetric and gynecological practice
of Edward A. Schumann.
Series 1 contains three folders of letters, 1916-1958, from,
primarily, obstetricians and gynecologists. The letters concern
Schumann's speaking engagements; his presidency of the American
Gynecological Society; his appointment as professor of gynecology
at the...
Dates:
1903 - 1963
Francis C. Wood papers II
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/228-02
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional papers, correspondence, speeches, and records of medical practice and military service, 1925-1989, of Philadelphia, Pa., cardiologist and educator, Francis C. Wood.Series 1 documents Francis C. Wood’s family and personal life, education, and honors and awards, 1949-1984. Includes family correspondence, press releases, and financial and legal papers.General correspondence in Series 2 includes letters of physicians, non-physicians, and letters of...
Dates:
1925 - 1989
Francis Clark Wood papers I
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/228-01
Scope and Contents
This collection is the larger of two collections of Francis C. Wood's papers, the other being MSS 2/0228-02. This extensive collection (1892-1989) chronicles the life and career of a 20th century physician, scientist, soldier, administrator, and teacher. The collection is divided roughly evenly among the different phases of his life and career. Because Dr. Wood was a leader in both his community and profession, the collection documents the activities and functioning of many institutions and...
Dates:
1892 - 1989
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