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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)...
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...
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...
Dates:
1819 - 1877
F.R. Packard slide collection (unprocessed)
Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2305
Scope and Contents note
The Packard slide collection contains approximately 1200 lantern slides on medical history. Slides include: portraits of physicians and scientists; instruments and equipment; frontispieces of medical texts; illustrations of anatomy and medical procedures; caricatures; and buildings. The collection also includes a card index of images and their sources.
Dates:
undated
Francis C. Grant papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/184
Scope and Contents
This collection contains professional, personal, and subject
correspondence; financial and property papers; course material;
discussions, book and article reviews, and miscellaneous writings;
and extensive case records with indexes, documenting the life,
interests, and neurosurgical career of Francis Clark Grant. Although
the correspondence is incomplete (primarily 1923 to 1933), the
discussions and reviews extend to 1949, and the case records span
Grant's entire career,...
Dates:
1920 - 1957
Francis C. Wood papers II
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/228-02
Scope and Contents
Personal and professional papers, correspondence, speeches, and records of medical practice and military service, 1925-1989, of Philadelphia, Pa., cardiologist and educator, Francis C. Wood.Series 1 documents Francis C. Wood’s family and personal life, education, and honors and awards, 1949-1984. Includes family correspondence, press releases, and financial and legal papers.General correspondence in Series 2 includes letters of physicians, non-physicians, and letters...
Dates:
1925 - 1989
