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Hugh Lenox Hodge papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/350
Overview
The Hugh Lenox Hodge Papers collection documents portions of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge’s medical career. Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge was a prominent Philadelphia physician who specialized in obstetrics, becoming one of the most renowned figures in that field in the nineteenth century. Hodge also contributed to fighting the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia during 1832. The collection contains two series: “Correspondence,” and “Subject Files,” dating from 1817 to 1833, 1870, 1932, and undated. Materials in...
Dates:
1817-1833, 1870, 1932, undated
Hugh M. Kinghorn papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/254
Scope and Contents
This small collection of Hugh M. Kinghorn's papers on tuberculosis
includes holograph and typescript writings and speeches, translations
of articles, and some examination procedural items from the
Trudeau Sanitorium. Series 1 includes Kinghorn's personal recollections of Edward
R. Baldwin, Edward Livingston Trudeau, and the Montreal General
Hospital and a biographical article on Peter Dettweiler, published
in Kinghorn's The Cure of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by
Rest and Exercise...
Dates:
1903 - 1957
Instituzioni della chirurgia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/331
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of a bound manuscript volume titled "Instituzioni della Chirurgia," ca. 1600-1650, a transcription of the text, [n.d.], and an annotated English translation typescript of the text, [n.d.]. The manuscript volume is divided into four parts: Institutes of Surgery; Phisology (labelled Part I); On Pathology (labelled Part II); and On Therapeutics (labelled Part III). Each part contains a preface and chapters. The chapters in the first part are Origin of medicine, On surgery...
Dates:
circa 1600-1650
International Congress of Dermatology. XII Annual Congress records (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2298
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of Stephen T. Donohue related to the 12th Annual International Congress of Dermatology session in 1962. Materials include correspondence, reports, programs, press releases, photographs of meeting events, and newspaper and magazine clippings. The collection also includes several photographs of skin diseases.
Dates:
1962-1962
Irving J. Wolman papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1990-040
Scope and Contents note
This collection includes materials relating to Wolman's roles as a physician, researcher and professor. Present are general patient files with exam reports, lab reports, and correspondence with referring physicians; along with College of Physicians of Philadelphia meeting agendas (1921-1946), and a small number of office files, including photographs of Hematology Department parties. Materials relating to Wolman's research activities include Cooley's Anemia patient files containing histories,...
Dates:
1921-1968 1952-1968
Isaac Anderson dissertation on fistula lacrymalis
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/016
Scope and Contents
Anderson attacks the current understanding of fistula lacrymalis, describes the anatomy and physiology of the
tear ducts, and advises opening the sac for relief. Two cases (dated May, 1831) are used for illustration.
Dates:
circa 1830s
Isaac Hiester letter to Samuel Jackson
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/143
Scope and Contents
Hiester recalls experience as student sent by Caspar Wistar to Germantown to report on outbreak of yellow fever among several families there, circa 1805. Letter describes physical situation of Germantown and location of houses of infected families.
Dates:
1821-08-24
Isaac S. Thompson notes on the lectures of Colin McKenzie
Collection
Identifier: MSS 408
Scope and Contents note
This is a volume of manuscript lecture notes entitled "Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery by Colin McKenzie, M.D." The notes appear to have been taken by Isaac S. Thompson. There are 22 lectures; topics include "Of the Structure of the Pelvis," "Of Conception and Touching," "On Abortion," "Premature Births," and "Preternatural Labor." The volume also includes several recipes for prescriptions.An inscription on the inside of the front cover dates the volume to 1784;...
Dates:
1784; undated
Isaac Starr notebooks (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1986-11
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection primarily of laboratory notebooks relating to Starr's work with the ballistocardiograph. Notebooks include lists and graphs of experiment data, notes and calculations, patient information, typed summaries of experiments, notes for papers and presentations, and correspondence with other cardiologists and with medical records archivists. The collection also includes a number of rolled ballistocardiograph printouts on photographic paper; printing blocks for illustrations for...
Dates:
1931-1980
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- Correspondence 352
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- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
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- University of Pennsylvania 40
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- College of Physicians of Philadelphia 38
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Curie, Marie 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
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