Showing Collections: 731 - 740 of 856
Shelflist of the Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 13/010-08
Dates:
1888
Silas Weir Mitchell collection
Series
Identifier: MSS 2/241-04
Scope and Contents note
The Silas Weir Mitchell collection contains material related to the personal and professional activities of Philadelphia-area physician and author Silas Weir Mitchell, as well as members of his family. This collection consists of selected manuscripts, photographs, and published material that have been separated from a larger collection by Norman Kane (A.B.A.A., Emeritus), and acquired by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.This collection is arranged into five series; “Letters...
Dates:
1888-1930
Silas Weir Mitchell correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 436
Overview
Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Mitchell worked as a contract surgeon in Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, an army hospital for nervous diseases. was actively involved in numerous local and national medical societies. He was founder and first president of the American Neurological Society and first president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society. In later...
Dates:
1865-1938; Majority of material found in 1883-1887; 1910-1911
Silas Weir Mitchell letter to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-02
Scope and Contents
Letter, 1911 Mar. 26, naming John Shaw Billings as custodian of Benjamin Rush watch (later part of Abbe Cabinet of College of Physicians of Philadelphia), following Mitchell’s death. Note from College Secretary John H. Girvin indicating, since Billings’ death preceded Mitchell’s, Simon Flexner appointed next custodian.
Dates:
1911-03-26
Silas Weir Mitchell papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-03
Scope and Contents note
The S. Weir Mitchell Papers, spanning 1788 to 1949, contain Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography. The bulk of the collection concerns Mitchell's family life and literary career, but also present is material pertaining to Mitchell as a physician, such as correspondence with his British and American colleagues and records of his studies of patients with nerve injuries. The collection also...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1850-1928; Bulk, 1850-1928 1788-1949
[Silas Weir Mitchell] typescript on François Villon
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/241-01
Scope and Contents
Typescript address before unknown audience with contemporary and later holograph emendations, attributed to S. Weir Mitchell, circa 1897. Mitchell describes life of poet François Villon. Includes remarks on Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
Dates:
circa 1897
Silas Weir Mitchell typescripts
Item
Identifier: MSS 424
Overview
1) A case of uncomplicated hysteria in the male, 1904; 2) Two letters to Dr. Osler concerning his book on science and immortality, 1904; and 3) Address to the American Neurological Association by the President, S. Weir Mitchell, 1909.
Previously catalogued as 10a 195.
Previously catalogued as 10a 195.
Dates:
1904; 1909
Sir James Paget correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/190-02
Scope and Contents
This is a small collection of holograph letters of English surgeon,
Sir James Paget, to a variety of correspondents, 1846-1894.
The letters were probably preserved for their autograph value.
Most items are responses to invitations or acknowledgements
of reprints. Several items are addressed to John B. Roberts.
Of note is a lengthy discussion of a case, 1869 August 25.
Also included are signature cuttings, a holograph recipe, and
two letters, 1887 and 1922, of Paget's son, Stephen Paget.
Dates:
1846 - 1922; Majority of material found within 1846 - 1894
Sir James Paget letter to I. Minis Hays
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/190-01
Scope and Contents
Letter, 2 July 1885, concerns dissension over arrangements for projected ninth International Medical Congress to be held in Washington, D.C., in 1887. Paget discusses arrangements of previous congresses. Includes cover letter.
Dates:
1885-07-02
Sir William Osler and Lady Osler letters
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 446
Scope and Contents note
This collection consists of six letters to Sir William and Lady Osler, written in 1917. The letters are from Major Vivian A. Batchelor, Dr. Harvey Cushing, and Dr. G.E. Brewer, and others. The letters mainly discuss the circumstances of the death of the Osler's son, who was killed in Belgium during World War I. One letter is manuscript and the others are typed transcripts.
Dates:
1917
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence 352
- Minutes 109
- Lecture notes 106
- Reports 89
- Financial records 79
- Photographs 68
- Clippings 45
- Speeches (documents) 38
- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 36
- Medicine -- Practices 36
- Committees 34
- Ledgers (account books) 34
- Annual reports 33
- Essays 33
- Lectures 33
- Typescripts 31
- Materia Medica 30
- Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
- Patient records 28
- Daybooks 27
- Manuscripts (documents) 26
- Obstetrics 24
- Anatomy 23
- Patients 23
- Recipes 23
- Surgery 23
- Diaries 21
- Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
- Publications (documents) 19
- Certificates 18
- Pathology 17
- Physiology 17
- Research notes 17
- Admission tickets 16
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
- Membership records 16
- Bylaws (administrative records) 15
- Genealogies (histories) 15
- Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 15
- Chemistry 14
- Library catalogs 14
- Prescriptions 14
- Fellows 13
- Medical illustration 13
- Medical museums 13
- Casebooks 12
- Programs (documents) 12
- Special events 12
- Women in medicine 12
- Yellow Fever 12
- Awards 11
- Biography files 11
- Memorandums 11
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 11
- Physicians 11
- Administrative records 10
- Anatomical abnormalities 10
- Collections management (Libraries) 10
- Dissection 10
- Fever 10
- Gifts 10
- Medical records 10
- Medical societies 10
- Pathological museums 10
- Phrenology 10
- Receipts (financial records) 10
- Case studies 9
- Catalogs 9
- Ephemera 9
- General Surgery 9
- Newsletters 9
- Reprints 9
- Scrapbooks 9
- Articles 8
- Grants 8
- Medicine -- History 8
- Midwifery 8
- Poetry 8
- Therapeutics 8
- Account books 7
- Book collecting 7
- Clinical notes 7
- Deeds 7
- Diplomas 7
- Finance 7
- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 7
- Medical libraries 7
- Medical offices -- Nineteenth century 7
- Medical schools -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- History 7
- Ophthalmologists -- Philadelphia, Pa. 7
- Physicians -- Nineteenth century 7
- Autographs 6
- Character readings 6
- Digestive System Diseases 6
- Examinations -- Questions 6
- Gynecology 6
- Hospitals -- Administration -- Philadelphia, Pa. 6
- Lantern slides 6
- Library users 6
- Medical care -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6 ∧ less
- Names
- University of Pennsylvania 40
- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 40
- 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
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more
Our records may include historic language that is inaccurate, offensive, or inappropriate. We are committed to acknowledging and updating hurtful legacies in the collections in our care. We welcome your feedback in identifying harmful language or images as we continue to update our records. If you have comments about a record or believe it includes information that should be changed or improved, please submit your thoughts using the Language Report Form.
