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George B. Green receipt [recipe] book
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/057
Scope and Contents
One volume of remedies and recipes compiled by George B. Green, 1823-1862, with notes on sources of
information or use of recipes. Includes recipes for medical ailments such as croup, hydrophobia, and
dysentery, and household substances such as varnish, shoe polish, and ink. Several remedies
prescribed by Vermont physician E. E. Phelps for Mrs. George B. Green. Newspaper clippings and other
printed items laid in.One-volume daybook of farm and personal accounts, 1852- June...
Dates:
1823 - 1862
George Bacon Wood financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-01
Scope and Contents
This small collection of George B. Wood's personal financial papers
documents his interests and activities in Philadelphia in the
mid 19th century. There is a small folder of financial correspondence (18451847)
including a letter (dated 15 May 1847) from Joseph Warrington
concerning lecture tickets for private pupils and an extract
from the minutes of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (dated
September 1846) concerning relinquishing loans to the College.The bulk...
Dates:
1845 - 1872
George Bacon Wood letters to Caroline Wood
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-03
Scope and Contents
This collection, spanning 1856 to 1858, consists of signed autograph
letters sent by George Bacon Wood to his wife, Caroline, while
she was visiting family in Greenwich, New Jersey. In these
letters, Wood describes the events at home in Philadelphia,
including his lectures at the University of Pennsylvania; the
visits of friends, family members, and students; the progress
of his latest book; and meetings of the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia. Other letters in the collection were...
Dates:
1856 - 1858
George Bacon Wood papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-04
Overview
The George Bacon Wood Papers collection documents George Bacon Wood’s professional and personal life from 1813 to 1870. Dr. George Bacon Wood was an accomplished physician and author, and also lectured at several medical institutions in the Philadelphia region. Materials located in the collection include correspondence, manuscript drafts, lecture notes, financial material, and some graphic material. The collection contains six series arranged by their relative size: “Correspondence,”...
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1813-1870; 1793-1921
George Bacon Wood poetry
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/039-02
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a small assortment of George B. Wood's
poetry, 1820-1849. Folder 1 contains a fragmentary commonplace
book with two lengthy undated poems, one untitled, the other,
"The triumph of Morpheus" (pp. 19-30). The volume also contains
nine geometrical theorems (pp. 119126) based on Wood's studies
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1814.Folder 2 contains seven poems on friendship, 1820-1831, originally
written in albums of several individuals; Wood's...
Dates:
1820 - 1849
George Bacon Wood writings
Collection
Identifier: MSS 433
Overview
George Bacon Wood was born in New Jersey 1797 and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1818. He was one of the founders of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy in 1821, but resigned in 1835 to become Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. Later he became Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, a position he held until he retired in 1860. He died in Philadelphia in 1879.The George Bacon Wood writings are a small...
Dates:
1848; undated
George Coates papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 413
Overview
The George Coates papers cover the years 1897 and 1909 to 1910. The collection consists of two volumes, one of answers to surgical examination questions from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897; the other from 1909 to 1910, containing Coates’ expenses for the years and what seems to be an address book of Philadelphia-area physicians. Also included in the collection are the questions to the examination questions. George Coates was Coates was an ear, nose, and throat specialist. ...
Dates:
1897; 1909-1910
George Combe correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/089
Scope and Contents
The first letter contains Combe’s defense of phrenology to correspondent who will soon attack system at a lecture
before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 1829. Combe asks correspondent to provide him
with objections beforehand and maintains that although phrenology explains the mind, it does not
condition it.In the second letter, Combe thanks Morton for gift of several works and comments on Inquiry into the distinctive characteristics
of the aboriginal race of America...
Dates:
1829, undated
George E. Stubbs financial records
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/312
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting financial charges and income, 1863-1883, for George E. Stubbs as Army contract surgeon during Civil War and from medical practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, 1867-1869, and Philadelphia, Pa., 1869-1883.
Dates:
1863 - 1883
George Edmund de Schweinitz papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/109
Overview
The George Edmunds de Schweinitz Papers collection documents portions of de Schweinitz’s professional medical career, largely from 1901 to 1918. George Edmund de Schweinitz was a prominent ophthalmologist, born in Philadelphia on October 26th, 1858. He worked and lectured at several hospitals and schools in the Philadelphia region until the late 1920s, and also made significant contributions to ophthalmological literature. The collection contains three series: “Correspondence,” “Writings,” and...
Dates:
1901-1918, 1921, 1933, undated
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- Correspondence 348
- Minutes 109
- Reports 89
- Lecture notes 80
- Financial records 79
- Photographs 68
- Clippings 45
- Speeches (documents) 38
- Medical societies -- Philadelphia, Pa. 36
- Ledgers (account books) 34
- Committees 33
- Essays 33
- Lectures 33
- Annual reports 32
- Typescripts 31
- Medical libraries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 28
- Daybooks 27
- Manuscripts (documents) 26
- Materia Medica 26
- Medicine -- Practices 26
- Patient records 25
- Patients 23
- Recipes 23
- Surgery 23
- Diaries 21
- Obstetrics 21
- Medicine -- Practice -- Accounting 20
- Publications (documents) 19
- Certificates 18
- Research notes 17
- Admission tickets 16
- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
- Membership records 16
- Bylaws (administrative records) 15
- Genealogies (histories) 15
- Physicians -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 15
- Library catalogs 14
- Anatomy 13
- Chemistry 13
- Fellows 13
- Medical museums 13
- Prescriptions 13
- Casebooks 12
- Physiology 12
- Programs (documents) 12
- Special events 12
- Awards 11
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- Memorandums 11
- Philadelphia (Pa.) 11
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- Yellow Fever 11
- Administrative records 10
- Collections management (Libraries) 10
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- Scrapbooks 9
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- General Surgery 8
- Grants 8
- Midwifery 8
- Poetry 8
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- Book collecting 7
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- Diplomas 7
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- Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia 7
- Medical libraries 7
- Medical offices -- Nineteenth century 7
- Medical schools -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- History 7
- Medicine -- History 7
- Ophthalmologists -- Philadelphia, Pa. 7
- Physicians -- Nineteenth century 7
- Autographs 6
- Character readings 6
- Examinations -- Questions 6
- Gynecology 6
- Hospitals -- Administration -- Philadelphia, Pa. 6
- Lantern slides 6
- Library users 6
- Medical care -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865 6
- Medical education 6
- Medical illustration 6
- Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Nineteenth century 6
- Physicians -- World War, 1914 - 1918 6
- Public Health 6
- Registers (lists) 6
- Urban hospitals 6 ∧ less
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- University of Pennsylvania. School of Medicine 39
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia 38
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library 35
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the President 20
- University of Pennsylvania 18
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Secretary 17
- Jefferson Medical College 15
- Philadelphia General Hospital 15
- Rush, Benjamin 15
- Fisher, Charles Perry 13
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Curator 10
- Mütter Museum 10
- Wood, George B. (George Bacon) 10
- Chapman, Nathaniel 9
- Coxe, John Redman 8
- Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent) 8
- Osler, William, Sir 8
- Dunglison, Robley 7
- Francis Clark Wood Institute for the History of Medicine 7
- Leidy, Joseph 7
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia, Pa) 7
- Philadelphia College of Medicine 7
- Philadelphia County Medical Society 7
- Physick, Philip Syng 7
- Sturgis, Katharine R. (Katharine Rosenbaum) 7
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Medical History 6
- Mitchell, Silas Weir 6
- Morse, Elliott H. (Elliott How) 6
- Carson, Joseph 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Building Committee 5
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Treasurer 5
- Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
- Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
- Jackson, Samuel 5
- Radbill, Samuel X. 5
- United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
- University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
- Ashhurst, Astley Paston Cooper 4
- Bache, Franklin 4
- Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
- Blockley Almshouse 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
- Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
- Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
- Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
- Gibson, William 4
- Keen, William W. (William Williams) 4
- McDaniel, W. B., II (Walton Brooks) 4
- Medical Library Association 4
- Mid-Eastern Regional Medical Library Service 4
- Parrish, Joseph 4
- Pathological Society of Philadelphia 4
- Pepper, William 4
- Philadelphia College of Pharmacy 4
- Santee, E. A. (Ephraim A.) 4
- Stillé, Alfred 4
- Sturgis, Samuel Booth 4
- Tyson, James 4
- United States. Navy 4
- Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
- Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Board of Trustees 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Revision of the Pharmacopoeia 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of Advancement 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Office of the Executive Director 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on General Medicine 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Ophthalmology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Otolaryngology 3
- College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Trustees of the Building Fund 3
- Curie, Marie 3
- Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
- Dorsey, John Syng 3
- Hare, Robert 3
- Harvard Medical School 3
- Hinsdale, Guy 3
- Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
- James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
- Medical Documentation Service (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena) 3
- Micozzi, Marc S. 3
- Mitchell, John K. (John Kearsley) 3
- Muller, George P. (George Paul) 3
- Neilson, Thomas R. (Thomas Rundle) 3
- Pancoast, Joseph 3
- Philadelphia General Hospital. School of Nursing 3
- Rush Hospital for Consumption and Allied Diseases 3
- Sizer, Nelson 3
- St. Christopher's Hospital for Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- United States Naval Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
- Wallace, Ellerslie 3
- Wistar, Caspar 3
- Wood, Francis C. (Francis Clark) 3
- Abbe, Robert 2
- American Association for the History of Medicine 2
- American Gynecological Society 2
- American Medical Society 2
- American Surgical Association 2 ∧ less
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