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Correspondence

 Subject
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Found in 352 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas Grier Miller papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/148
Scope and Contents This collection contains biographical and genealogical information, correspondence with individuals and institutions, addresses, writings, photographs, and awards, certificates and diplomas, 1890-1981, documenting T. Grier Miller's life, interests, and career, particularly his gastroenterological research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.Major correspondents in the collection are: William Bennett Bean, T. H. Boon, W. Russell Brain, Katharine O'Shea Elsom,...
Dates: 1890 - 1981

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

Thomas Ruston papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/137
Scope and Contents This small collection of manuscripts, 1764-1802, documents the education, medical career, and personal life of Thomas Ruston. Items in the collection relating to Ruston's medical education at the University of Edinburgh include notes on two lectures on the pulse delivered by William Cullen with drafts of three letters by Ruston describing his affairs, 1764-1765; petitions signed by the students of the university, protesting the lack of regulations in granting degrees, 1764; and an...
Dates: 1764 - 1802

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

Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 380
Overview The Truman G. Schnabel, Jr., Papers date from 1908 to 2007 and represent Schnabel’s career at Philadelphia General Hospital and in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Medicine, as well as the numerous professional medical organizations in which he was involved. The collection is divided into eight series: Boards, Committees, and Groups; Correspondence; Foundations; Lectures, Speeches, and Talks; Personal Files; Philadelphia General Hospital; Published Articles; and Truman G....
Dates: 1908 - 2007

United States Insole Company letter

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 371
Overview United States Insole Company Papers contains a letter sent from the United States Insole Company in 1886. The United States Insole Company sold magnetic medical equipment to treat a multitude of ailments. The letter solicits interest in a free pair of magnetic insoles. This collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015.
Dates: 1886-04-26

W. S. W. Ruschenberger papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/012
Scope and Contents This collection of Ruschenberger's papers contains personal correspondence. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence from Ruschenberger to his wife, Mary B. Wister, 1843-1848, and to his mother, Ann, 1826-1846. Although the correspondence with his wife is primarily concerned with domestic issues, principally the birth of their daughter, Fanny, these letters also describe a trip Ruschenberger made to Saratoga Springs in 1843 and are filled with information on basic medical...
Dates: 1822 - 1851

Walter B. Shelley papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/147
Scope and Contents This collection of 54 letters, 1951-1954, to Walter B. Shelley from dermatologists around the world, contains biographical information which was used in Shelley's Classics in clinical dermatology (1953). Most of the correspondents convey photographs and information on their own life, career, and work or that of relatives.Correspondents are: Stuart D. Allen, Paul Blum, Aldo Castellani, Helen O. Curth, Niels Danbolt, Oskar Gans, Henri Gougerot, Sir Archibald Gray, Sven...
Dates: 1951 - 1954

Walter Freeman correspondence

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: MSS 2/014-01
Scope and Contents This small collection of letters from Walter Freeman to two Japanese neurosurgeons, Mizuho Nakata and Sadao Hirose, gives some indication of Freeman's own views on psychosurgery and lobotomy and is also filled with personal information on Freeman's career and family. There are no original items in the collection, only photocopies of original material in the possession of either Franklin Freeman or Sadao Hirose.The 1948 letter to Mizuho Nakata from Walter Freeman discusses a...
Dates: 1848; 1955-1972