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Essays from the Board of Naval Surgeons of the United States Navy Bureau and Medicine Department
Collection
Identifier: MSS 1/001-02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a series of 74 brief essays on an array
of subjects, 1841-1848, with a few related letters and testimonials,
from physicians applying to the Board of Naval Surgeons, for
entrance into or promotion in the U.S. Navy. The Board appears
to have been convened at the U.S. Naval Asylum in Philadelphia
and Surgeon John A. Kearney was its president. Many of the
applicants were graduates of the Medical Department of the University
of Pennsylvania. The collection conveys...
Dates:
1841 - 1848
Evelyn Cook Bauerle papers on Benjamin Gruskin
Collection
Identifier: MSS 402
Overview
Evelyn Matthews Cook Bauerle was born in 1910 in Rahway Union, New Jersey. She graduated from Ursinus College in 1930, majoring in chemistry and biology, and assisted Benjamin Gruskin in setting up his new research lab at Temple Medical School, running most of tests summarized in Gruskin’s published articles. She remained there until 1939. Bauerle died in 2002 in York, Pennsylvania.Benjamin Gruskin was born in 1878 in either Lithuania or Russia (accounts vary). He graduated from...
Dates:
1931-1951
Examination questions from the United States Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 1/001-01
Scope and Contents
Examination questions and responses to Naval Medical Board at U. S. Naval Asylum, Philadelphia, from D. Warren Brickell, 1847, and H. Lawrence Sheldon, 1856. Brickell gives description of iritis and its treatment. Sheldon responds to twelve questions and describes fistula lacrymalis; scarlatina; delivery by the feet; composition of light; definition of dew point; nux vomica; branches of intestinal iliac; lacrimal apparatus; structure and function of liver; morbid changes in blood; rheumatism;...
Dates:
1847, 1856
Facts leading up to the legislative act legalizing dissection of the human body: compiled from data kept by William Smith Forbes, M.D., professor of anatomy at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, of the grave robbing of Lebanon Cemetery
Collection
Identifier: MSS 467
Scope and Contents
This scrapbook contains material related to the case surrounding the grave robbing at Lebanon Cemetery in Philadelphia and the subsequent Anatomy Act in Pennsylvania. Also included are notes (1880-1881) acknowledging receipt of museum specimens, reports and lists of bodies delivered to medical schools (1881), and W. S. Forbes' History of the Anatomy-Act of Pennsylvania (1898).
Dates:
1879-1898; 1935-1937
Failed fellowship applications of the Office of the Secretary of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: CPP 1/007-01
Scope and Contents
This collection of failed fellowship applications, spanning
1900 to 1937, is part of the records of the office of the
Secretary of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
Each fellowship application consists of an application form
containing basic information about the applicant and three
or more letters of recommendation from Fellows of the
College. These applications are useful in that they reveal
some of the reasons why candidates were rejected from the
fellowship, provide the names of...
Dates:
1900 - 1937
Felix E. Karpinski papers (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: 1995-056
Scope and Contents note
This is a collection of papers of Felix E. Karpinski, including lecture and manuscript notes; reprints by Karpinski and others; correspondence; a small number of histories and photographs of patients; and some administrative memoranda from Jefferson Medical College. Topics include anemia, lead poisoning, fluid balance, and nutrition.
Dates:
1947-1968
"Fighting Tuberculosis" Isotype charts for the National Tuberculosis Association
Collection
Identifier: MSS 465
Scope and Contents
The collection contains 19 Isotype charts created for the National Tuberculosis Association by Otto and Marie Neurath in 1938. This series of charts, entitled “Fighting Tuberculosis,” educated the public on the causes and prevention of tuberculosis. 5,000 sets of the series (originally consisting of 20 charts) were printed, and they were distributed as a traveling exhibition throughout the United States and Canada. Isotype (International system of typographic picture education) is...
Dates:
1938
Final report of the Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/015-01
Scope and Contents
Final report, dated 1890 Feb. 1, of the committee appointed by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia to review and revise the 1880 edition of the Pharmacopoeia of the United States. The report is in the hand of the committee’s chairman, W. S. W. Ruschenberger, and recommends that quantities of ingredients be stated "in parts by weight", the langauge of the pharmacopoeia be simple, straightforward, and comprehensible, and metric measurements and the centigrade scale be avoided. The report...
Dates:
1888 - 1890
Financial records of the Committee on the Mütter Museum
Collection
Identifier: CPP 10/007-05
Scope and Contents
The collection contains cash books, checkbooks, cancelled
checks and account statements, bills, receipt books and
receipts, vouchers, and audit and financial reports of the
Committee on the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia, documenting the financial transactions and
history of the Mutter Museum and College Collections, 1863-
1972. Earlier materials in the collection, in particular,
document the purchase, transport, and restoration of museum
anatomical and pathological...
Dates:
1863 - 1972
Forster family papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/300
Scope and Contents
The collection contains letters sent and received, 1819-1887,
by members of the Forster family of Dauphin County, Pa., particularly
General John Forster (1777-1863); his second wife, Margaret
S. Forster (1804-1891); Mrs. Forster's son, James H. Stuart
(1828-1854); and Benjamin L. Forster, the second son of John
and Margaret Forster.Although the content of the Forster family letters is personal
in nature, there are many observations concerning matters of
individual and public...
Dates:
1819 - 1877
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