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Silas Weir Mitchell collection
Series
Identifier: MSS 2/241-04
Scope and Contents note
The Silas Weir Mitchell collection contains material related to the personal and professional activities of Philadelphia-area physician and author Silas Weir Mitchell, as well as members of his family. This collection consists of selected manuscripts, photographs, and published material that have been separated from a larger collection by Norman Kane (A.B.A.A., Emeritus), and acquired by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.This collection is arranged into five series; “Letters...
Dates:
1888-1930
Silas Weir Mitchell correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 436
Overview
Silas Weir Mitchell was born in Philadelphia in 1829. He earned his M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1850. During the American Civil War (1861-1865), Mitchell worked as a contract surgeon in Turner's Lane Hospital in Philadelphia, an army hospital for nervous diseases. was actively involved in numerous local and national medical societies. He was founder and first president of the American Neurological Society and first president of the Philadelphia Neurological Society. In later...
Dates:
1865-1938; Majority of material found in 1883-1887; 1910-1911
Silas Weir Mitchell letter to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/241-02
Scope and Contents
Letter, 1911 Mar. 26, naming John Shaw Billings as custodian of Benjamin Rush watch (later part of Abbe Cabinet of College of Physicians of Philadelphia), following Mitchell’s death. Note from College Secretary John H. Girvin indicating, since Billings’ death preceded Mitchell’s, Simon Flexner appointed next custodian.
Dates:
1911-03-26
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Mitchell's correspondence, travel journals, diaries, literary notebooks, and manuscripts of his speeches, poems, and unpublished autobiography.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 — Folder 1
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 — Folder 1
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 — Folder 1
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
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