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George Bacon Wood writings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 433
Overview
George Bacon Wood was born in New Jersey 1797 and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821, but resigned in 1835 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he became Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, a position he held until he retired in 1860. He died in Philadelphia in 1879.The George Bacon Wood writings are a small...
Dates:
1848; undated
George Coates papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 413
Overview
The George Coates papers cover the years 1897 and 1909 to 1910. The collection consists of two volumes, one of answers to surgical examination questions from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897; the other from 1909 to 1910, containing Coates’ expenses for the years and what seems to be an address book of Philadelphia-area physicians. Also included in the collection are the questions to the examination questions. George Coates was Coates was an ear, nose, and throat specialist. ...
Dates:
1897; 1909-1910
George Combe correspondence
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/089
Scope and Contents
The first letter contains Combe’s defense of phrenology to correspondent who will soon attack system at a lecture
before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1829. Combe asks correspondent to provide him
with objections beforehand and maintains that although phrenology explains the mind, it does not
condition it.In the second letter, Combe thanks Morton for gift of several works and comments on Inquiry into the distinctive characteristics
of the aboriginal race of America...
Dates:
1829, undated
George Douglass notes on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman
Item
Identifier: 10a 459
Scope and Contents
One volume of notes on Chapman’s lectures on the practice of medicine. Internal references to Dr. Jackson, Professor of Practice, in Boston, and Dr. Physick’s recent experiments, imply a date prior to 1835. Lectures include diseases of the digestive and respiratory systems, dropsy, scrofula, and marasmus. Cullen’s classification of diseases is listed on the verso of the title page.
Dates:
between 1814 and 1824
George E. Stubbs financial records
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/312
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting financial charges and income, 1863-1883, for George E. Stubbs as Army contract surgeon during Civil War and from medical practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1867-1869, and Philadelphia, Pa., 1869-1883.
Dates:
1863 - 1883
George Edmund de Schweinitz papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/109
Overview
The George Edmunds de Schweinitz Papers collection documents portions of de Schweinitz’s professional medical career, largely from 1901 to 1918. George Edmund de Schweinitz was a prominent ophthalmologist, born in Philadelphia on October 26th, 1858. He worked and lectured at several hospitals and schools in the Philadelphia region until the late 1920s, and also made significant contributions to ophthalmological literature. The collection contains three series: “Correspondence,” “Writings,” and...
Dates:
1901-1918, 1921, 1933, undated
George F. Lehman notes on the lectures of Benjamin Rush
Item
Identifier: 10a 239
Scope and Contents
Three volumes of notes on lectures given by Benjamin Rush at the University of Pennsylvania on the topics of pathology, therapeutics, and the practice of medicine.
Dates:
1810 - 1811
George Green papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/013
Scope and Contents
The contents of this commonplace book of George Green, Sr., divide
naturally into three series: medical lecture notes and examination
questions, many from the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1817-1820; copies or drafts of personal correspondence,
1824 and undated; and poetry, literary sentences, and miscellaneous
writings, 1858-1860 and undated. Medical items in the volume include a copy of notes on Philip Syng
Physick's lecture on inflammation, [1819?]...
Dates:
1817 - 1860
George Hamilton Chambers book of prescriptions
Collection
Identifier: 10a 468
Scope and Contents
One volume of 150 prescriptions dated 2 Sept. 1887 to 18 Dec. 1898. Each entry lists patient name, prescription, and date. Some entries also contain patient address and indications. Several leaves are missing for Jan. through late March 1892.
Dates:
1887 - 1898
George Haynes ledger
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/026
Scope and Contents
Volume contains accounts of Haynes’ medical practice in various towns of Vermont in Orleans,
Washington, and Caledonia counties.
Dates:
1833
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- Correspondence 353
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- Lecture notes 106
- Reports 89
- Financial records 79
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- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 38
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- Medicine -- Practices 36
- Committees 35
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- Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
- Publications (documents) 19
- Certificates 18
- Pathology 17
- Physiology 17
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- Admission tickets 16
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
- Membership records 16
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- Genealogies (histories) 15
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- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 41
- University of Pennsylvania 40
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia 39
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
- Rush, Benjamin 23
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
- Chapman, Nathaniel 16
- Jefferson Medical College 16
- Philadelphia General Hospital 15
- Fisher, Charles Perry 13
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
- Mütter Museum 10
- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
- Coxe, John Redman 9
- Physick, Philip Syng 9
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Hodge, H. Lenox (Hugh Lenox) 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Roberts, John Bingham 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- Woman's Hospital of Philadelphia 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
- Dorsey, John Syng 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Parrish, Joseph 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Edinburgh 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
- Blockley Almshouse 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
- Curie, Marie 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
- Hinsdale, Guy 4
- Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 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
- Wistar, Caspar 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Abbe, Robert 3
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Billings, John S. (John Shaw) 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
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Hewson, Thomas T. 3
- Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
- Pancoast, Joseph 3
- Parke, Thomas 3
- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
- Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases 3
- Sizer, Nelson 3 ∧ less
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