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Joseph Ulman scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 364
Overview
This collection consists of two scrapbooks containing informational illustrations and pamphlets about a variety of health topics. Allergy testing and gastrointestinal maladies comprise the bulk of the material. Materials include charts to inform proper caloric intake, color illustrations of various diseases, and charts to help differentiate between diseases with similar symptoms. Not much is known about Joseph Ulman. This collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015.
Dates:
1920 - 1930
Joseph W. Paul notes on the lectures of Joseph Parrish
Item
Identifier: 10a 452
Scope and Contents
One volume (68 leaves) of notes on lectures by Joseph Parrish delivered privately circa 1830. Lacks title page. Lecturer identified by comparison with W.W. Gerhard’s notes on Parrish’s lectures. Paul’s text begins with leaf 53 of Gerhard’s text. Topics covered include fevers and gastrointestinal diseases.
Dates:
circa 1830
Joseph William Gardam typescript speech
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/117
Scope and Contents
Address describes history of smallpox diagnosis, distinguishes between smallpox and chicken pox on basis of
diagnostic aspects, such as lesions, and lists other illnesses which may be confused with smallpox.
Dates:
1927 Nov. /
Joseph Wilson diary
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/064
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting Joseph Wilson’s voyage on U.S.S. Vandalia from Portsmouth, N.H., to Marquesas
with abstract of log of entire voyage, 18571859;
includes manuscript on naval hygiene, 1860; and
fragmentary diary of voyage on U.S.S. Powhatan from Philadelphia to Mobile, Ala., 18601861.
Diary from
Vandalia (pp. 195)
describes Wilson’s arrival in Portsmouth, N.H., on 2 Nov. 1857, embarkation on 1
Dec., then voyage south to Rio de Janeiro, through Straits of Magellan, north to Lima and Panama,...
Dates:
1857 - 1861
Josephus T. Ullom papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 2002-003
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of Josephus T. Ullom. Materials include patient visit logs, 1903-1945, with information on payments and timing of visits, and occasional notes about the reason for visits or mortality. The collection also includes three reprints by Ullom; a small amount of biographical information; a Penn lecture card; and a membership certificate from the American College of Physicians.
Dates:
1903-1945
Juliet Coates Walton commonplace book
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/106
Scope and Contents
Commonplace book, 1848-1883,
containing medicinal and household recipes, poetry, and quotations.
Several printed items laid in.
Dates:
1848 - 1883
J.W. Porter papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/156
Scope and Contents
This small collection contains 31 bills, receipts, and account
statements sent by five homeopathic physicians in the Champaign
and Urbana area to J. W. Porter, 1877-1897. The physicians
are: T. J. Merryman, J. E. Morrison, George R. Spooner, F. O'Dee
Springer, and C. D. Tufford. Many of the bills and accounts
concern treatments with electricity.
Dates:
1877 - 1897
Kane-Foulke family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/108
Scope and Contents
This small collection of letters and printed material, 1886-1932,
concerning members of the Kane and Foulke families contains
a memorial resolution on John K. Kane by the Board of Health
of the State of Delaware, 1886; newsclippings, 1894, which document
a controversy between J. Cheston Morris and George Rhyfedd Foulke
over tuberculosis in cattle; and a letter, 8 August 1932, from
Emlen Wood, Acting Librarian of the College of Physicians of
Philadelphia, to Mrs. George Rhyfedd Foulke,...
Dates:
1886 - 1932
Katharine R. Sturgis papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/355
Overview
Katharine Rosenbaum Guest Boucot Sturgis was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1903. She received her undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University and entered the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1935. She was forced to leave school when she contracted tuberculosis, but later resumed her studies and earned her medical degree in 1940. Sturgis became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1951 and was elected its first female president in 1972. The Katharine R....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1948 - 1979; 1852 - 1985
Katharine R. Sturgis papers II
Collection
Identifier: MSS 445
Overview
Katharine Rosenbaum Guest Boucot Sturgis was born in Philadelphia in 1903, and graduated from Woman’s Medical College of Philadelphia in 1940.Katharine R. Sturgis's connection with the College of Physicians of Philadelphia began in 1951 when she was elected a Fellow. In 1972, after more than twenty years as a member, Sturgis became the College's first woman president. A year later, she was forced to retire due to health problems. Sturgis died in Philadelphia in 1987....
Dates:
1953-1975; undated
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- 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
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- 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
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- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
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- 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
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- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
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- Billings, John S. (John Shaw) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
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- Curie, Marie 3
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