Collection: Mary Wenzel surgical casebook | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

One typescript volume (iv, 171 leaves) of surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman’s Hospital of Philadelphia from 2 Oct. 1896 to 23 Apr. 1897. Procedural notes on preliminary leaves.

Dates

1896 - 1897

Creator

Wenzel, Mary (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Mary Wenzel received her M.D. from the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1897. She served as a physician in the public schools of Philadelphia for many years. She was a member of the American Medical Association. Wenzel died in Philadelphia on 21 October 1936.

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.