Correspondence
Subject
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Found in 352 Collections and/or Records:
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Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography.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 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 papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/145-02
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters, 1885 to 1919, written by
Sir William Osler. The time span covered by the collection
includes Osler's years in Philadelphia (18841889), at Johns
Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland (1889-1904), and as
Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford, England (1905-1919).
Recipients of Osler's letters include Thomas B. Futcher (1871-1938),
Guy Hinsdale (1858-1948), W. H. Jefferys (1871-1945), William
W. Keen (1837-1932), E. B. Krumbhaar (1882-1966), S....
Dates:
1885 - 1919
Small collections of the Office of the President
Series
Identifier: CPP 2/012
Overview
This collection dates from 1908 to 1985, and consists of single files containing documentation left by various College Presidents. Researchers should note that there is not a substantial amount of information regarding any one President’s term found in this collection.
Please see the Series descriptions for more information.
Please see the Series descriptions for more information.
Dates:
1908-1985
Solomon Solis-Cohen correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/049
Scope and Contents
Four typescript letters signed, 1911, from James Tyson and T. Mellor Tyson, concerning costs of patient
care at Country Branch of Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases, Malvern, Pa.
Dates:
1911
St. John W. Mintzer papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/019
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection of the papers of St.John Watkins
Mintzer documents the life and career of a 19th century physician,
soldier, and businessman. Although the bulk of the papers concern
his administration of Civil War hospitals, the collection also
contains information about the operation of Philadelphia's eclectic
medical schools, the work of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
and Mississippi, and some unusual business ventures of the day.Materials preserved in Series 1...
Dates:
1847 - 1912
Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company
Collection
Identifier: MSS 441
Overview
Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 – 6 November 1915) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels. This book, and others, were part of a series called “Self and Sex,” and were published by Stall’s publishing company, Vir Publishing Company, between 1897 and 1904.The Sylvanus Stall Records of Vir Publishing Company span the years 1899 to 1911, and documents the activities of the...
Dates:
1899-1911
Thomas Bond correspondence
Item
Identifier: MSS 418
Overview
Thomas Bond was an American physician and surgeon. He was born May 2, 1713, in Calvert County, Maryland. In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first medical facility in the American colonies, with Benjamin Franklin, and also volunteered his services there as both physician and teacher. During the Revolutionary War, Bond helped to organize the medical department of the Continental Army. He established the first American field hospitals during the conflict. He was also a member...
Dates:
1741; 1760; 1773; 1776
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