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Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Abraham Jacobi letters relating to Mount Sinai Hospital, New York
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/040
Scope and Contents
Mount Sinai Hospital, concerning appointment or resignation of staff members; an 1879 report concerning closing
dispensary on certain days of the week; letters from Rudolf Tanszky, Secretary of Medical Staff, concerning
irregular attendance of the staff; applications for positions; expressions of regret from Board of Directors and
Medical Board at Jacobi’s resignation in 1883; and printed version of Out-Door Department’s staff rules and
regulations.
Dates:
1879 - 1901
Allen R. Myers Presidential Papers
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/013-01
Overview
Allen R. Myers was born in Baltimore on January 14, 1935. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania and received his M.D. from University of Maryland in 1960; his medical specialties were Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. He spent the majority of his career in academia and was elected College President in 2000 and served two terms. Myers died in January 2020.
This collection dates from 1999-2003, and documents Allen Myers’ time as College President. It contains correspondence, committee...
Dates:
1972-2006; Majority of material found in 1999-2001
Arthur K. Asbury papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/351
Overview
Arthur K. Asbury (b. 1928), Van Meter Professor of Neurology Emeritus, is an internationally recognized neurologist, best known for his clinical and experimental studies of peripheral neuropathies. Most of his career was spent at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, where he was a clinician, educator, researcher, and administrator. The bulk of this collection documents Dr. Asbury's work as Vice Dean of Research and Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs at the University of Pennsylvania...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1985 - 2000; 1958 - 2007
Committee Reports of the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 1/006-01
Scope and Contents
The committee reports in this collection are part of the
records of the Office of the Secretary of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia. The reports span the tenures of
six secretaries of the College of Physicians: John H.
Packard (1862-1877), William G, Porter (1877-1879), Richard
A, Cleemann (1879-1885), Isaac Norris, Jr. (1885-1890),
Charles W, Dulles (1890-1896), and Thomas R. Neilson (1896-
1914), The reports, spanning 1867 to 1911, were produced by
various ad-hoc committees appointed...
Dates:
1867 - 1910
Deeds of trust of the Trustees of the Building Fund
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/019-02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains the first deed of trust, 2 February
1850, between the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and
the Trustees of the Building Fund; the continuation of the
deed of the trust, 9 February 1859; and a report, 1 February
1861, of the trustees concerning the purchase of a lot
adjoining the College premises at 13th and Locust streets.
Dates:
1850 - 1861
E. B. Krumbhaar papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/344
Overview
Edward Bell Krumbhaar (1882-1966) was a distinguished pathologist and cardiac physician, as well as one of Philadelphia’s leading historians of medicine. A founder of both the Section on Medical History of the College of Physicians and the American Association of the History of Medicine (AAHM), Krumbhaar also served as president of the College and of the AAHM. The E.B. Krumbhaar papers covers Krumbhaar’s accomplishments and contributions to pathology and cardiac physiology from the early to...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1899 - 1992; 1825 - 1992
Ernest Spiegel papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/251
Overview
Ernest A. Spiegel, M.D., was an Austrian-born internationally
recognized neurologist. He emigrated to the United States in 1930,
where he spent much of his career at Temple University School of
Medicine in Philadelphia. He finished his career at the National
Parkinson FOundation in Miami. Spiegel is well-known for his work
in developing the stereotactic technique. He passed away in 1985. The
papers of Ernest Spiegel reflect his varied interests in neurological
research and publication from his...
Dates:
1895
Evelyn Cook Bauerle papers on Benjamin Gruskin
Collection
Identifier: MSS 402
Overview
Evelyn Matthews Cook Bauerle was born in 1910 in Rahway Union, New Jersey. She graduated from Ursinus College in 1930, majoring in chemistry and biology, and assisted Benjamin Gruskin in setting up his new research lab at Temple Medical School, running most of tests summarized in Gruskin’s published articles. She remained there until 1939. Bauerle died in 2002 in York, Pennsylvania.Benjamin Gruskin was born in 1878 in either Lithuania or Russia (accounts vary). He graduated from...
Dates:
1931-1951
Final report of the Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/015-01
Scope and Contents
Final report, dated 1890 Feb. 1, of the committee appointed by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to review and revise the 1880 edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. The report is in the hand of the committee’s chairman, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, and recommends that quantities of ingredients be stated "in parts by weight", the langauge of the pharmacopoeia be simple, straightforward, and comprehensible, and metric measurements and the centigrade scale be avoided. The report...
Dates:
1888 - 1890
Frank J. Hartman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/340
Overview
Frank Janczak Hartman (1893-1986) was a radium specialist and consultant who also worked as a “radium hound,” searching for pieces lost by area hospitals and industry until his retirement in 1956. The Frank J. Hartman papers provide an insightful view into the changes atomic energy brought to society. Hartman, who owned two companies dealing with radium, clearly saw the product’s value, but he also recognized the potential dangers and the damage that could result from the improper usage,...
Dates:
1904-1977
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