Mary Alice Schively surgical casebook

Item

Identifier: 10b 19

Scope and Contents

One volume (101 leaves) of surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Cases are dated 29 Sept. 1894 to 12 Apr. 1895.

Dates

1894 - 1895

Creator

Schively, Mary Alice (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Mary Alice Schively was born in 1867 and received her M.D. from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1895. She set up private practice in Philadelphia, where she became a member of the Philadelphia Neurological Society, the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society, and the American Medical Association. Schively retired in the late 1920s and moved to Santa Fe, Mexico. She returned to Philadelphia in the late thirties, but by the end of World War II was living in Santa Fe again. The last listing for Schively in the American Medical Directory is in 1961, with an unknown address. Her death was apparently not reported in JAMA.

John Bingham Roberts (1852-1924), Philadelphia surgeon, received his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1874. He then trained at Pennsylvania Hospital from 1875 to 1877. He was a leading figure in the foundation of the Philadelphia Polyclinic and School for Graduates in Medicine and was Professor of Anatomy and Surgery there until the Polyclinic merged with the School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania in 1918. He held many local appointments as Surgeon and lectured on surgery at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Roberts was very active in professional societies. He helped organize the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery. He served as Vice-President of the American Surgical Association (1889 and 1895) and was President in 1921. He assembled a collection of photographs and autograph letters of every Fellow of the ASA. Roberts was elected to Fellowship in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1878.