Carson, Joseph
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1808 - 1876
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Morris Eaton papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/005
Scope and Contents
The Eaton Papers consist of correspondence, handwritten notes,
reports, and newspaper and periodical articles concerning Eaton's
life, career, and professional concerns. The bulk of the collection
is comprised of records from Eaton's tenure as Chairman of the Philadelphia County Medical Society(PCMS) Committee on Archives. These records include reports
of the committee; correspondence files with physicians and their
descendants concerning biographical information; Eaton's
biographical...
Dates:
1885 - 1919
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
Joseph Carson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/292
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four letters to Joseph Carson from the publishing firm of Lindsay Blakiston concerning the production and sale of Carson's A history of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a letter containing resolutions made by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the resignation of Joseph Carson in 1876. 1. Lindsay Blakiston. Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 1868 Sept....
Dates:
1868 - 1876
Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/131
Scope and Contents
Student notes taken in three different hands on lectures in University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, 1850-1862. Bulk of volume contains notes on lectures of George Bacon Wood on theory and practice of medicine, 1857, and William Pepper on theory and practice of medicine, 1861-1862. Other lecturers are: Joseph Carson on materia medica, 1851; J. F. Frazer on the steam-engine, 1850; William Gibson on surgery, 1851; Samuel Jackson on institutes of medicine, 1851, 1860, and 1861; and...
Dates:
1850 - 1862
Notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/208
Scope and Contents
Volume of notes taken by an unidentified student on the lectures of Joseph Carson on materia medica, William Pepper on the theory and practice of medicine, and Henry H. Smith on surgery in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1862 December 2-1863 January 29, and R. A. F. Penrose on obstetrics at Philadelphia Hospital, 1862 December 10-1863 February 6. Three case descriptions presented by J. M. Da Costa at the hospital are also included.
Dates:
1862 - 1863
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