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     Container 
  
Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:
Original manuscript constitution, 1827
     File  — Oversize: 1
  
Scope and Contents
              From the Collection:
	     The Records of the Philadelphia Medical Society include the original manuscript of the 1827 Society constitution; minutes; reports, including those from the librarian and treasurer; correspondence; records of a committee concerned with quack medicines, patent trusses, and specifics and patents, with reports on Swaim's panacea and H. Chase's truss against hernia; membership records; advertisements; and essays on a variety of medical topics by candidates for membership.
          
      
          Dates: 
        1827
      
      
   Bills, receipts, and membership nominations, 1830-1831
     File  — Oversize: 1, Folder: 4
  
Scope and Contents
              From the Collection:
	     The Records of the Philadelphia Medical Society include the original manuscript of the 1827 Society constitution; minutes; reports, including those from the librarian and treasurer; correspondence; records of a committee concerned with quack medicines, patent trusses, and specifics and patents, with reports on Swaim's panacea and H. Chase's truss against hernia; membership records; advertisements; and essays on a variety of medical topics by candidates for membership.
          
      
          Dates: 
        1830-1831; 1860
      
      
   

