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Thomas Hewson essay on the treatment of varicose veins
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/229-02
Scope and Contents
Essay read to College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 29 Oct. 1833, describing cause of varicose veins and treatment by surgery and application of pressure. Includes case description from Pennsylvania Hospital.
Dates:
1833
Thomas Hewson notes on the last illness of Dr. W. S. Coxe
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/229-01
Scope and Contents
Describes lifestyle and habits of William Smith Coxe, then his symptoms and Hewson’s treatment. Includes findings from autopsy of Coxe, performed twenty-four hours after his death on 20 July 1837. Cause of death not specified, but Coxe suffered from orchitis (an inflamed and enlarged testicle).
Dates:
1837
Thomas J. Grahame essay on influenza
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/161
Scope and Contents
Thomas J. Grahame defines influenza and describes current theories of its causation, symptoms, and treatment, 1857.
Dates:
1857
Thomas J. Shivers notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/185
Scope and Contents
Notes taken by Thomas Shivers, Jr., on lectures of John Syng Dorsey on materia medica and Nathaniel Chapman on practice of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, 1817. Bulk concern Dorsey’s lectures (nos. 1-25 in vol. 1 and 26-45 in vol. 2). After discussion of nutrition and disease, Dorsey describes medications and their uses according to arrangement of emetics, cathartics, diuretics, antilithics, diaphoretics, sialogogues, emmenagogues, and anthelmintics. Volume 2 contains brief notes on...
Dates:
1817
Thomas Justus Dunott notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/239
Scope and Contents
Student notes by Thomas J. Dunott on surgical lectures of Thomas D. Mütter at Jefferson Medical College, 1852. Notes interleaved with Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on the principles and practice of surgery. Dunott’s notes concern: amputation; diseases and fractures of bones; inflammation; and wounds and injuries, specifically of head and abdomen. Includes occasional notes on John Kearsley Mitchell’s lectures on practice of medicine.
Dates:
1852
Thomas Parke notebook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/099
Scope and Contents
Volume of Parke’s notes, 1767, on Pierre Joseph Macquer’s Elements of the theory and practice of
chymistry (1764), considering elements and their interactions; Geoffroy’s table of comparative affinities;
and metals and their ores. Volume also includes Parke’s notes of examination questions on anatomy and
chemistry given to graduates of the College of Philadelphia’s Medical School in 1769. Examiners include
Adam Kuhn, John Morgan, and William Shippen.
Dates:
1767 - 1769
Thomas R. Neilson papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/021
Scope and Contents
This collection of Thomas R. Neilson's papers touches on many
areas of the professional career and personal life of this Philadelphia
physician, surgeon, and teacher. The bulk of the collection,
comprised of professional correspondence and surgical case records,
comes from a narrow period of time, 1888 to 1892, years when
Neilson was approaching middle age and was well advanced in
medical career. His early education, family affairs, and financial
situation are also documented....
Dates:
1865 - 1937
Thomas Ruston papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/137
Scope and Contents
This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the
education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston.
Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education
at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures
on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three
letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions
signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack
of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...
Dates:
1764 - 1802
Thomas W. Bawdin notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/201
Scope and Contents
Contains notes on lectures delivered by Nathaniel Chapman on the practice of medicine and John Syng Dorsey on materia medica in the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, 1817 January 7-February 12.
Dates:
1817
Timothy Hall recipe book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/285
Scope and Contents
Volume of medical and household recipes of physician Timothy Hall, 1823-1834. Includes notes on use, dosage, and sources of information.
Dates:
1823 - 1834
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