Rose Hirschler surgical casebook

Collection

Identifier: 10b 16

Scope and Contents

One typescript volume (xxiv, 160 leaves) of 119 surgical cases presented by John B. Roberts at the Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia. Preliminary pages include table of contents, summaries of walking cases and operations, procedural notes, clinic rules, and an introduction to the report. Cases dated 30 Sept. 1898 to 14 April 1899.

Dates

1898 - 1899

Creator

Hirschler, Rose (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Rose Hirschler received her M.D. in 1899 from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she later served as Professor of Dermatology. She was a staff physician at Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology and the American Medical Association. Hirschler died in Philadelphia on 26 July 1940. 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.