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Hermann B. Anderson ledgers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/282
Scope and Contents

The collection contains three ledgers, 1888-1902, documenting the Hanover County medical practice of Hermann B. Anderson. The ledgers list patients, reason for visit, and settlement of account. An index to account names is included in each volume. Two of the ledgers contain farm accounts for the years 1889-1890 and 1897-1901, and one contains a separate section for "Negro accounts", 1895.

Dates: 1888 - 1902
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Historical Medical Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: HMP
Scope and Contents

Since photography was invented in the mid-19th century, it has been used for medical purposes. The collection contains more than 4,000 photographs and showcases a variety of patients with diseases, injuries, and malformations, such as Civil War amputations, conjoined twins, and birth defects.

Please see the inventory linked below for further details.

Dates: 1865-1974, undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Hospital journal

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/332
Scope and Contents

The collections consists of a journal, [18]88 Mar.-Apr., containing entries recorded by the staff of a hospital or clinic operated by Dr. William Alexander Hammond, 1828-1900. The volume documents the condition and care of patients, often including which if any medications were administered. The phrase "Night Orders Dr. Hammond" appears on the front cover of the volume. Dr. Hammond’s signature appears frequently throughout the journal.

Dates: 1888
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Howard Childs Carpenter slide collection (unprocessed)

 Collection
Identifier: CoPSp.ACC2307
Scope and Contents note The collection contains approximately 250 glass lantern slides, measuring 3.25 x 4". Most of the slide are in black and white. The diverse images relate to child healthcare, nutrition, and disease prevention. Subjects include: the activities of the Department of Prevention of Disease; foreign children; infant care; sanitary kitchens and farms; portraits of physicians; cartoons; and graphs and diagrams. These slides probably accompanied lectures given by Carpenter to community groups, mothers...
Dates: undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Howard Fackenthall record of anomalies found in the dissecting rooms of the University of Pennsylvania

 Item
Identifier: 10a 49
Scope and Contents

One volume of 459 descriptions of anatomical anomalies as discovered in the dissecting rooms of the University of Pennsylvania during the 1875-1876 session. Includes letters at end to Dr. H. Lenox Hodge submitting this manuscript in competition for the best practical study of anatomy and for the best record of anomalies. Printed notice of anatomical prizes pasted on front flyleaf.

Dates: 1875 - 1876
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Howard Mellor patient records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/052
Scope and Contents This small collection of Howard Mellor's ophthalmological patient records, 1894-1906, gives a detailed understanding not only of his private practice in Philadelphia but also of ophthalmological practices, procedures, and prescriptions current at this time. The two volumes of patient records are arranged by number (assigned chronologically as admitted) and include each patient's name, age, address, ailment or complaint, and Mellor's detailed notes on the progress of the case. Each volume...
Dates: 1894 - 1921
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Hugh Lenox Hodge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/350
Abstract The Hugh Lenox Hodge Papers collection documents portions of Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge’s medical career. Dr. Hugh Lenox Hodge was a prominent Philadelphia physician who specialized in obstetrics, becoming one of the most renowned figures in that field in the nineteenth century. Hodge also contributed to fighting the cholera epidemic in Philadelphia during 1832. The collection contains two series: “Correspondence,” and “Subject Files,” dating from 1817 to 1833, 1870, 1932, and undated. Materials...
Dates: 1817-1833, 1870, 1932, undated
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Hugh M. Kinghorn papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/254
Scope and Contents This small collection of Hugh M. Kinghorn's papers on tuberculosis includes holograph and typescript writings and speeches, translations of articles, and some examination procedural items from the Trudeau Sanitorium. Series 1 includes Kinghorn's personal recollections of Edward R. Baldwin, Edward Livingston Trudeau, and the Montreal General Hospital and a biographical article on Peter Dettweiler, published in Kinghorn's The Cure of Pulmonary Tuberculosis by Rest and...
Dates: 1903 - 1957
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Index and summary of Joseph Leidy correspondence

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/304
Dates: 1978
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Inoculation [for smallpox] advertisement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 476
Scope and Contents

This advertisement offers inoculation for smallpox by Stephen Samuel Hawley in Fiskdale, Massachusetts. It also notes that a Pest-House (i.e. a house to quarantine those infected with communicable diseases such as smallpox) will be opened.

Note: this is a later reprint of the 1801 advertisement.

Dates: 1801 February 7
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Committee on the Mütter Museum 10
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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
Dorsey, John Syng 5
Girvin, John H. (John Harper) 5
Gross, Samuel D. (Samuel David) 5
Jackson, Samuel 5
Parrish, Joseph 5
Radbill, Samuel X. 5
United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (Board of Naval Surgeons) 5
University of Edinburgh 5
University of Pennsylvania. Hospital 5
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Bache, Thomas Hewson 4
Blockley Almshouse 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Library Committee 4
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College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Section on Public Health, Preventive, and Industrial Medicine 4
College of Physicians of Philadelphia. Women's Committee 4
Curie, Marie 4
Deaver, John B. (John Blair) 4
Fowlers and Wells’ Phrenological Cabinet 4
Gibbon, John Heysham, Jr. 4
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Hinsdale, Guy 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
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
Wistar, Caspar 4
Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania 4
Abbe, Robert 3
Alms-House (Philadelphia, Pa.) 3
Anti-Vaccination Society of America 3
Billings, John S. (John Shaw) 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 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
Da Costa, J. M. (Jacob Mendes) 3
Hare, Robert 3
Harvard Medical School 3
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Horner, William E. (William Edmonds) 3
Hunter, Robert J. (Robert John) 3
James, Thomas C. (Thomas Chalkley) 3
Jenner, Edward 3
Leverson, Montague R. (Montague Richard), 1830-1925 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
Parke, Thomas 3

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