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Jesse Elmer Shuman papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/250
Scope and Contents
This small collection, 1885-1935, documents Jesse Elmer Shuman's
medical education at the University of Pennsylvania and the
Medical Institute of Philadelphia and includes matriculation
and lecture admission tickets, lecture schedules, examination
questions, and a recipe book. Also included are some newsclippings,
a volume of notes used from 1912-1931, for lectures on materia
medica, and an undated typescript address on angina pectoris.
Dates:
1885 - 1935
J.F. McClendon papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/120
Scope and Contents
This small collection of J. F. McClendon's papers, 19121953,
contains research correspondence, records of his work with the
American Public Health Association's Study Committee on Endemic
Goitre, and typescripts of his published articles and lectures.
The bulk of the material concerns McClendon's work on goiter
and iodine.Series 1 contains a chronological file of correspondence, 1925-1944,
concerning biochemistry; product samples and information; the
effect of iodine on...
Dates:
1912 - 1953
J.F. McClendon scrapbooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 363
Overview
This collections contains pages from a scrapbook compiled by J.F. McClendon. The bulk of the material consists of photographs and biographies of notable doctors and scientists, interspersed with advertisements for medicines and other healthcare products. The six folders in this collection are arranged in alphabetical order by last name with the last folder labeled as ‘Men of Science R.H.H.’ The collection was discovered during a survey in the summer and fall of 2015.
Dates:
circa 1930s-1940s
J.H. Huddleston lecture notes
Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/044
Scope and Contents
Volume of lecture notes and notes on current medical journals and literature compiled by J. H.
Huddleston while a student at the Medical School of Harvard University, [ca. 18891890].
Primary
contents of the lecture notes concern surgery, clinical surgery, orthopaedic surgery, and the diseases of
children; many lectures were delivered at Boston City Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital as
part of clinical training for students. Lecturers include: Edward H. Bradford, Herbert L. Burrell,...
Dates:
circa 1889-1890
Job Leonard Ledger and daybook
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/284
Scope and Contents
Volume documenting medical practice of Job Leonard in Windham Co., Vt., 1814-1821; some accounts settled as late as 1823. Begins in ledger format, then changes to daybook format in Dec. 1817. Lists patient name, reason for visit, prescriptions, and settlement of accounts. Includes supplementary folder of receipts and miscellaneous financial papers, 1818-1843.
Dates:
1814 - 1843; Majority of material found within 1814 - 1821
John A. Hyde daybooks
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/222
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of two daybooks, 1835 Feb. 1-1839 Aug.
25, and 1839 Aug. 26-1845 Dec. 31, describing the medical practice
of John A. Hyde in Freeport, Maine. The daybook entries are
chronological and provide the patient's name, a brief description
of the medical treatment, and the charge involved; for a birth,
the sex of the child is also provided. At the end of the entries
for each year, Hyde lists his annual earnings and the number
of births for that year. Receipts, bills,...
Dates:
1824 - 1846; Majority of material found within 1835 - 1845
John Andrews letter to Dr. James Hollingshead
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/334
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of an autographed letter signed, 28 Mar. 1793, from Dr. John Andrews in Philadelphia, Pa. to Dr. James Hollingshead in Northhampton. Dr. Andrews was responding to Dr. Hollingshead’s request for smallpox vaccine. Dr. Andrews wrote the letter while training at the Philadelphia Almshouse (later Philadelphia General Hospital), and in the letter, he comments on the general character of the patients he treats. Dr. Andrews also lists those individuals graduating with him from...
Dates:
1793-03-28
John Ashhurst, Jr. correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/075-01
Scope and Contents
This extensive collection of the correspondence of John Ashhurst, Jr.,
documents his professional interests, editorial work, and contact
with colleagues in the surgical field through the courseof
his career, 1868-1900. Most items concern responses to Ashhurst's
request for articles for the International encyclopaedia
of surgery, replies to invitations, and case descriptions
or referrals. The collection also contains a few items, 1863-1864,
from Ashhurst's service during the Civil War,...
Dates:
1863 - 1900
John Ashhurst, Jr. papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/075-02
Overview
The John Ashhurst Papers collection documents the life and professional career of Dr. John Ashhurst from 1846 to 1901. John Ashhurst was a prominent Philadelphia surgeon who worked at the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church, as well as the University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He also wrote extensively on the subject of surgery, writing the book The Principles and Practice of Surgery, which was published in several editions. Located in the collection are...
Dates:
1846-1901, undated
John Atlee notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/065
Scope and Contents
Two volumes of John L. Atlee’s notes on lectures from the University of Pennsylvania, 1818-1820,
documenting his medical education. Volume 1 contains Atlee’s notes, 18 February 1818 to 26 February 1818, on the lectures of Nathaniel Chapman on Practice, Institutes, and Clinical Medicine, numbers 79 [continued] through 85. Volume 2 contains Atlee’s notes, 15 November 1819 to 18 January 1820, on the lectures of John Redman Coxe on materia medica; William Gibson on surgery; Robert Hare...
Dates:
1818 - 1820
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- Medical students -- Philadelphia, Pa. -- Nineteenth century 16
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- 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
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