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Jacob Price notes on the lectures of Thomas D. Mütter

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/081
Scope and Contents

Price’s notes are interleaved with Thomas D. Mütter’s Syllabus of the course of lectures on principles and practice of surgery (Philadelphia, 1847) and expand on printed text. Notes occur in chronological order from 23 October 1848 through 22 February 1849 and consider inflammation, wounds, diseases of bones and joints, abdominal wounds, syphilis, and amputation. There are also a few pages of Price’s review notes, dated February [1849?].

Dates: 1847 - 1894
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Jacob Sharpless essays

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/028
Scope and Contents These two essays, written early in Jacob Sharpless' medical career, show his concern not only with physical disease but also with social ills.The first, submitted to the Censors of the Philadelphia Medical Society in application for junior membership in 1816, discusses the causes of injuries to the medulla spinalis or spinal injuries which exhibit no visible fractures. The essay examines current methods of treatment for spinal injuries although Sharpless concedes that the...
Dates: 1816 - 1817
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Jacob Solis-Cohen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/046
Scope and Contents The John Solis Cohen papers consist of five collections. This first collection contains correspondence, addresses, and published and unpublished manuscripts of articles and textbooks documenting J. Solis Cohen's research, labors, and concerns in the fields of laryngology and tuberculosis throughout most of his professional career. The other four collections consist of three volumes of scrapbooks the case of Emperor Frederick III of Germany and seven volumes of lecture notes.For...
Dates: 1856 - 1922
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Jacob Weber lecture and matriculation cards

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Identifier: MSS 2/193
Scope and Contents This collection of lecture admission and matriculation cards and related material documents Jacob Weber's medical education at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, 1845, and the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, 1855 to 1857. The collection indicates that, in addition to the prescribed series of courses at the university, Weber also attended supplementary lectures on anatomy and surgery.Physicians and faculty members whose lectures Weber attended...
Dates: circa 1855-1857
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Jacques Lamarque notes on the lectures of Jacques Lazerme

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/088
Scope and Contents Volume of student notes taken in Latin by Jacques Lamarque on lectures of Jacques Lazerme at Montpellier, France, 1729. Contents include descriptions and treatment of internal diseases, such as mania and epilepsy, then diseases of eye, ear, nose, mouth and teeth, chest, abdomen, fevers, diseases of women, diseases of infants, and venereal diseases. Section on venereal diseases may be based on either lectures of Jean Astruc or Astruc’s teachings as related by Lazerme.Entitled...
Dates: 1729
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

James Crichton-Browne correspondence with Burton Chance

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/101
Scope and Contents

Autograph and typed letters signed, 1926-1936, from Sir James Crichton-Browne, praising Burton Chance’s writings on Sir William Lawrence, Sir James Hutchinson, and history of ophthalmology. Crichton-Browne includes account of his meeting with Sir William Lawrence in 1863. Includes autograph letter signed of Audrey Crichton-Browne, 1938 Mar. 29, to Burton Chance concerning Crichton-Browne’s death.

Dates: 1926 - 1936
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

James Macgill essays

 Collection — Volume: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/315
Scope and Contents

Volume of essays delivered to unidentified medical society in Edinburgh, 1753, concerning rickets; phlebotomy as a treatment for fever; and history and practice of medicine.

Dates: 1753
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

James Nelson Miller notes on lectures from the College of Physicians and Surgeons

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/060
Scope and Contents One volume of undated lectures, circa 1879-1880, delivered by Francis Delafield, on pathology, symptoms, prognosis, and treatment of neurological disorders and diseases of liver and stomach. Subject index included.One volume of lectures delivered by James Woods McLane at College of Physicians and Surgeons, on pregnancy, labor, delivery, and post-natal care with accounts of complications of labor and pregnancy-related illnesses. Subject index included. Lectures generally...
Dates: 1879 - 1880
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

James Oliver ledger and notes on lectures from Rutgers Medical College

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/286
Scope and Contents

Notes taken by James Oliver, 1829, on lectures at Rutgers Medical College. Includes notes on David Hosack on institutes and practice of medicine, William MacNeven on materia medica, and Valentine Mott on surgery. Also includes ledger of Ulster Co., N.Y., farm accounts, 1853-1861.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1829 - 1861; Majority of material found within 1861
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

James Q. Gant, Jr. correspondence received

 Collection — Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 2/192
Scope and Contents

Typed letters signed from John H. Stokes, 1940 Aug. 9, and Herman Beerman, 1940 Aug. 12, dermatologists at the University of Pennsylvania, to James Q. Gant, Jr., responding to inquiry about projected third volume of Louis A. Duhring’s Cutaneous medicine.

Dates: 1940
Found in: Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

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