Patient records
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Samuel B. Hunter clinical lecture notes from Pennsylvania Hospital and Jefferson Medical College
Item
Identifier: MSS 410
Scope and Contents note
Bound volume of notes in pencil and ink taken by Samuel B. Hunter in 1854 and 1855. The notes record Hunter's observation of clinical visits, describing patient's complaints and their treatments. The volume also includes some recipes for prescriptions.
Dates:
1854-1855
Surgical Case Records of Presbyterian Hospital
Collection
Identifier: MSS 429
Overview
Presbyterian Hospital was founded in 1871 by the Alliance of Philadelphia Presbyteries as a 45-bed facility on 2.5 acres. The incorporators declared the purpose was “to provide medical and surgical aid and nursing for the sick and disabled...” Care and nursing was granted to the indigent of Philadelphia, funded by donations from individuals and Presbyterian churches, to fulfill its Christian mission. This commitment was renewed in 1952, when the trustees of the Hospital voted against moving...
Dates:
1892-1894
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
Traill Green papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/221
Scope and Contents
This collection of the personal papers of Traill Green (1813-1897),
spanning 1845 to 1868, consists of correspondence, case descriptions
of patients, a committee report, the transcript of a speech,
excerpts from published materials, and other miscellaneous items.Series 1, spanning 1845 to 1857, consists of letters written
and received by Traill Green, many of which are drafts. Of
special interest in the correspondence are Green's letters pertaining
to the remains of a...
Dates:
1845 - 1868
William Osler patient records from the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/145-01
Scope and Contents
Clinical records of patients under care of William Osler in wards MM and WM at Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, 1887-1889. In addition to Osler’s notes, patient records contain notes by James Tyson (Osler’s successor in professorship of clinical medicine at the University) and two resident physicians, Joseph Leidy and L. L. Mial. Several examples of cases of Bright’s disease, dyspepsia, tuberculosis, rheumatism, and typhoid fever.
Dates:
1887 - 1889
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