Box 2
Container
Contains 17 Collections and/or Records:
Reports and correspondence, 1817-1829
File — Box: 2, Folder: 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:
1817-1829
Reports and minutes, 1829 December - 1831 December
File — Box: 2, Folder: 2
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:
1829 December - 1831 December
Reports and membership lists, circa 1832-1837 December
File — Box: 2, Folder: 3
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:
circa 1832-1837 December
Reports, 1839 January - 1839 March
File — Box: 2, 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:
1839 January - 1839 March
Reports, resolutions, correspondence, 1839 April - 1840 March
File — Box: 2, Folder: 5
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:
1839 April - 1840 March
Reports, correspondence, minutes, 1840 September - 1844 May
File — Box: 2, Folder: 6
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:
1840 September - 1844 May
Miscellaneous, advertisements, publications, and notes, circa 1827-circa 1828
File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
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:
circa 1827-circa 1828
Cumming, John, Jan 8, 1794, on contagion and North, Edward [Washington], Nov 19, 1796, on an unusual case of suppression of the urine caused by a large scrophulous tumor nourished by the aorta, 1794 January 8
File — Box: 2, Folder: 8
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:
1794 January 8; 1796 November 19
On dysentery, Feb 4, 1797 and Pendleton, Ja[mes], Nov 23, 1799, "A dissertation on the systole and dyastole of the heart", 1797 February 4
File — Box: 2, Folder: 9
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:
1797 February 4; 1799 November 23
Brockenbrough, Austin, Jr., Sep. 27, 1802, "Speculations on the Modus Operandi of Digitalis in Dropsies and Consumptions" and McCall, Edwin L[eRoy], Jan 2, 1803, "Sketch on the Power of some parts of the animal body to perform the functions of other parts, 1802 September 27
File — Box: 2, Folder: 10
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:
1802 September 27; 1803 January 2
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