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1851 Catalog of the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/001-01
Scope and Contents
Volume contains descriptions, donor names, and case histories of pathological and anatomical museum specimens by John Neill, Curator of the Pathological Cabinet of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1849-1851. The specimens are numbered 1-47; many were originally in the collection of Joseph Parrish and donated by his son, Isaac Parrish, who contributed several of the catalogue entries. Included are reports of the curator and several prints of specimens. At the end of the volume are...
Dates:
1849 - 1851
1864 Catalog of the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/002-02
Scope and Contents
Catalogue of museum specimens compiled by curator, Thomas G. Morton, in 1864, following the acquisition of the pathological and anatomical collections of Thomas D. Mütter by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The catalogue entries are numbered sequentially, 1-491, and are sorted roughly by type of specimen with brief distinguishing remarks.
Dates:
1864
1884 Catalog of the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/002-01
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the three-volume original typescript
catalogue of the Mutter Museum begun by Guy Hinsdale in
1884, The catalogue contains entries and emendations to
1941, when it was superceded by a revised typescript
version.The catalogue entries are arranged by specimen type
according to catalogue number in a numerical code system.
Volume 1 contains numbers 1000-3900; volume 21 4000-7000;
volume 3, 8000-18000. A summary of the code system is
included in volume 1. The...
Dates:
184 - 1941
1941 Catalog of the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/002-03
Scope and Contents
Typescript catalogue of anatomical and pathological specimens and historical materials in the Mütter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, compiled 1940-1941 by Ella N. Wade, with additional information to 1958. The catalogue entries are arranged according to accession number. Volume 1 contains accession numbers 1-2288; volume 2, 2289-4233; volume 3, 4234-7709. Each catalogue entry includes the specimen number, former Mütter catalogue number (where appropriate), specimen...
Dates:
1940 - 1941
1947-1949 Catalogue of the Mütter Museum
Item
Identifier: CPP 7/005-03
Overview
In June 1947, Museum Curator Ella Wade wrote:"For almost one hundred years the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians has existed with no published catalogue of its thousands of specimens. Except for listing and numbering new specimens as they were received, little was done in the way of cataloguing until 1884, when Dr. Guy Hinsdale, the curator, undertook the enormous task of compiling the first complete and compre- hensive catalogue. This consists of three large...
Dates:
1949
1960 Catalog of the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 7/003-01
Scope and Contents
Typescript catalogue, compiled in 1940 with information to 1960, of medical museum items, such as oil portraits, photographs, statuary, medals, and badges, preserved at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia as part of its College Collections. Most entries include subject, artist, size, acquisition information, current location, and insurance appraisal value. Insurance appraisals were made by the Federal Appraisal Company, 1936. Inscriptions on medals are transcribed. Included in the...
Dates:
circa 1940-1960
Abraham E. Rakoff slide collection (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2303
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of approximately 2500 lantern slides collected by Abraham E. Rakoff related to cytology and endocrinology. The slides are of illustrations and text and are arranged by topic.
Dates:
undated
Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/040
Scope and Contents
Mount Sinai Hospital, concerning appointment or resignation of staff members; an 1879 report concerning closing
dispensary on certain days of the week; letters from Rudolf Tanszky, Secretary of Medical Staff, concerning
irregular attendance of the staff; applications for positions; expressions of regret from Board of Directors and
Medical Board at Jacobi’s resignation in 1883; and printed version of Out-Door Department’s staff rules and
regulations.
Dates:
1879 - 1901
Abraham Ornsteen papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 373
Overview
Dr. Abraham Ornsteen’s medical notes and medical school pictures comprise the Abraham Ornsteen Papers collection. A Philadelphia neurologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Abraham Ornsteen (September 30, 1894-April 28, 1978) gained notoriety for his clinical instruction which included some of the earliest medical instruction videos. This collection includes Dr. Ornsteen’s neurological notes, as well as class and professional portraits. This collection was discovered during...
Dates:
1915 - 1929
Abram O. Blanding daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/271
Scope and Contents
Daybook of accounts from medical practice of A. O. Blanding in Concord, N.H., 1850 Apr. 30-[1854] Jan. 24. Several charity accounts charged to Town of Concord.
Dates:
1850 - 1854
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
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- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
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- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Physick, Philip Syng 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
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- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
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- Gibson, William 4
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- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
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- Parrish, Joseph 4
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
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- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
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- Wistar, Caspar 3
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