Patients
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Civil War patient register and scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 6/012
Scope and Contents
The Collection contains a single volume, 1862-1919, originally used as a patient register for wounded U.S. Civil War soldiers recovering at Philadelphia (Pa.) area military and civilian hospitals. It was later used as a scrapbook for newspaper clippings. The patient register is in the handwriting of wartime nurse Hiram J. Noyes. The wounded are listed by hospital, but there are multiple lists for each hospital in no identifiable order. There is no index. Among the hospitals included are St....
Dates:
1862 - 1919
Commonplace book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/122
Scope and Contents
Volume of unnamed Charleston physician with alphabetical listing of ailments and prescriptions with reference
to physician’s cases or published sources, 1839. Include case report of woman dead in childbirth and accounts
of physician’s experiences with yellow fever cases during an outbreak in Charleston during the summer of 1839.
Physician describes climatic conditions, symptoms of patients, and general observations. Includes copy of letter,
[1839] Sept. 13, summarizing events of outbreak....
Dates:
1839
E. A. Santee daybooks and ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/223-01
Scope and Contents
The collection, 1856-1888, contains five daybooks and four ledgers, documenting the medical practice and career of E. A. Santee at Lehman, Shickshinny, Hollenback, Hobbie, and Wapwallopen, in Luzerne County, Pa. Included are some notes and recipes from Jefferson Medical College. Also included are some cash accounts and a ledger of farming accounts of John Santee.
Dates:
1856 - 1911
George J. Hermann daybooks and diaries
Item
Identifier: MSS 414
Overview
George Joseph Hermann was born in 1873 in Newport, Kentucky, and graduated from the Medical College of Ohio in 1894. In April 1895, he set up his own practice in Newport, Kentucky. Hermann operated as the general physician for Newport, and later served on the Board of Trustees for Speers Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, and taught anatomy at the Nurses’ Training School of Speers Hospital. He died on June 8, 1933, after a two-months long illness.This collection consists of two bound...
Dates:
1892-1898
Gove Saulsbury letter to George Bacon Wood
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/187
Scope and Contents
Saulsbury refers patient, Caleb H. Sipple, with indigestion to Wood’s care and describes case history and treatment, 11 Mar. 1851.
Dates:
1851-03-11
Henry G. Wagoner daybook
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/062
Scope and Contents
Volume documents Henry G. Wagoner’s medical practice in Somerville, N.J., 1862. Bulk of volume
contains chronological visiting list of patients in Somerset County. Each entry, listed by name, assigned
symbol; explanation of symbols on p. 4. Most of Wagoner’s practice lay in Somerville or Raritan. Daybook
entries contain personal and professional accounts. Volume also contains list of Wagoner’s obstetric
appointments during 1862 with names and address of parents, date of birth, sex of child, and...
Dates:
1862
Hermann B. Anderson ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/282
Scope and Contents
The collection contains three ledgers, 1888-1902, documenting
the Hanover County medical practice of Hermann B. Anderson.
The ledgers list patients, reason for visit, and settlement
of account. An index to account names is included in each volume.
Two of the ledgers contain farm accounts for the years 1889-1890 and 1897-1901,
and one contains a separate section for "Negro accounts", 1895.
Dates:
1888 - 1902
Historical Medical Photographs Collection
Collection
Identifier: HMP
Scope and Contents
Since photography was invented in the mid-19th century, it has been used for medical purposes. The collection contains more than 4,000 photographs and showcases a variety of patients with diseases, injuries, and malformations, such as Civil War amputations, conjoined twins, and birth defects.
Please see the inventory linked below for further details.
Please see the inventory linked below for further details.
Dates:
1865-1974, undated
J. H. Marsden papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2/066
Scope and Contents
One volume documents medical practice, 1847-1861, of J. H. Marsden, homeopathic physician in Adams County, Pa. Lists charges and payments, made often with goods or services, for each patient and information concerning occupation of each patient; bulk spans 1847 to 1861 with occasional entries through 1870s. One folder of material laid in ledger contains bills, receipts, promissary notes, and miscellaneous financial papers, 1851-1881. Index to ledger account names included.A second...
Dates:
1847 - 1861
John Elsom notes on clinics from Jefferson Medical College and Pennsylvania Hospital
Collection — Volume 1
Identifier: MSS 2/061
Scope and Contents
Volume of medical and surgical cases presented to students by faculty members at the clinic and hospital of
Jefferson Medical College and staff at Pennsylvania Hospital, 30 Sept. 1848 to 14 Feb. 1849. Entries contain
name and age of patient with description of the ailment and notes on treatment or prescription. There are
occasional follow-up studies of certain patients. Index to subjects included. Physicians presenting cases are:
Robley Dunglison, George Fox, W. W. Gerhard, Charles D. Meigs,...
Dates:
1848 - 1849
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