Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 352 Collections and/or Records:
John Hubbard presidential papers
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/010
Overview
This collection dates from 1974 to 1978, and documents John Hubbard’s time as College President. It contains correspondence; committee and annual meeting reports, including the Long Range Planning Committee; information relating to the College’s Continuing Medical Education Program for cardiovascular medicine; correspondence of the Section on Medical History; and a scrapbook of correspondence and other documentation about the Restoration Fund (part of the Third Century fundraising...
Dates:
1974-1978
John Hunter letter to Edward Jenner
Item
Identifier: MSS 416
Overview
John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon, one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. He was a teacher of, and collaborator with, Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine. He is alleged to have paid for the stolen body of Charles Byrne, and proceeded to study and exhibit it against the deceased's explicit wishes. Hunter died in 1793 of a heart...
Dates:
1791 December 10
John K. Mitchell correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/263
Scope and Contents
This collection, spanning 1892 to 1914, consists of letters received
by John K. Mitchell and some miscellaneous material. Most of
the letters concern the publication of Mitchell's book, Remote
Consequences of Injuries of the Nerves, and Their Treatment
(1895). The collection also contains three letters written
by Mitchell, two reviews of his book, a case study, and a signature
cutting.Series 1 contains letters received by Mitchell pertaining to the
publication of Remote...
Dates:
1892 - 1914
John Mumford Swan's sanitation survey of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Virgin Islands
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/347
Overview
The John Mumford Swan Sanitation Survey of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Virgin Islands collection documents Swan’s survey of health conditions in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and sections of Virgin Islands from 1919 to 1920. After the First World War, Swan was sent by the Red Cross to these nations, making his recommendations for improving the health of their citizens. Swan submitted a final report on his findings to the Red Cross in May 1920, located in this collection. The collection...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1919-1921; 1901-1924
John Wiley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/059
Scope and Contents
This small collection of five notebooks documents John Wiley's
medical education at Jefferson Medical College, 1835-1837, and
gives some sketchy information about his later professional
life.The heart of the collection consists of one volume of Wiley's
notes (1835-1837) on the lectures of Jefferson faculty, including:
Samuel Colhoun on materia medica; Robley Dunglison on physiology;
Jacob Green on chemistry; George McClellan on surgery; Granville
Sharp Pattison on anatomy;...
Dates:
1834 - 1855
Jones Family Papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 438
Overview
The Jones Family Papers, spanning from 1881 to 1968, documents parts of the family practice and life as a family where the patriarch is a country doctor. The collection contains 45 rpm records, photographs, correspondence, financial records in the form of patient cards and ledgers, notebooks, patient records and personal records.The Jones Family Papers focus on several of country doctors from West Virginia. William Notly Jones is the first doctor of the family, but is not well...
Dates:
1881-1968
Joseph B. VanderVeer letter to Douglas T. Neale
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/314
Scope and Contents
Letters, 1942 Feb. 15-1944 Aug. 13, describing experiences and daily life as physician in U.S. Army 52nd Evacuation Hospital and 364th Station Hospital, stationed in the Pacific during World War II.
Dates:
1942 - 1944
Joseph Carson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/292
Scope and Contents
The collection contains four letters to Joseph Carson from the publishing firm of Lindsay Blakiston concerning the production and sale of Carson's A history of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. The collection also includes a letter containing resolutions made by the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania on the resignation of Joseph Carson in 1876. 1. Lindsay Blakiston. Letter : Philadelphia, Pa., to Joseph Carson, [Philadelphia, Pa.], 1868 Sept....
Dates:
1868 - 1876
Joseph Decatur Bryant letters to Colonel Daniel Scott Lamont
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/307
Scope and Contents
Five letters to Daniel Scott Lamont, 1893 June 26-1893 June 29, concerning Joseph D. Bryant’s preparations for President Grover Cleveland’s jawbone tumor operation on 1 July 1893. Typed transcriptions by donor with emendations by W. B. McDaniel II included.
Type of reproduction--Positive photocopies.
Type of reproduction--Positive photocopies.
Dates:
1893
Joseph G. Richardson papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 432
Overview
Joseph Gibbons Richardson was born in Philadelphia in 1836. He earned his M.D. in 1862 from the University of Pennsylvania, and later was a lecturer on pathological anatomy and professor of hygiene. Richardson is best known for his contributions to the field of medical microscopy. He died in Philadelphia in 1886.The Joseph G. Richardson papers date from 1862 to 1887, and document Richardson’s professional career as a physician in 19th-century Philadelphia, including letters to...
Dates:
1862-1887; undated
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